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This is very interesting. Recently I realized that if tomorrow the big G decides to take over or close my email address I lose access to all my online accounts

This is very interesting. Recently I realized that if tomorrow the big G decides to take over or close my email address I lose access to all my online accounts. Step one to freedom was to use my own domain, redirected to my old account, but I'm seriously thinking about doing it all myself. But keeping a whole server up to date, secure, etc.... that's a full time job. Is there a good solution?

qznc 9y ago
I switched to mailbox.org where I'm a paying customer. That feels better than being a ad target at Gmail.
- chrisper 9y ago
  >That feels better than being a ad target at Gmail. I believe they stopped this recently. But you could have always become a paying customer of Google.
  - duckMuppet 9y ago
    They stopped scanning for purposes of targeted advertising. However, they still scan and read email. People can't be inconvenienced. I tend to think this is worse than scanning for ads. I also tend to think anyone concerned about privacy moved from Google long ago. After all, its terrifying when you allow a company to determine if perhaps your received/sent links are fake, or malware, maybe they should report that you like certain sites, or have a flight.. People lived the idea of the President maxing out his power with executive orders, until they didn't.. Life is ask about tradeoffs i suppose.. http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/google-gmail-ads-emails-1202477321/ http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/google-gmail-ads-emails...
innocenat 9y ago
I have been down that route before. My realization come when I was blocked out of my main GMail account for ~24 hours. I have consider setting up my own email server, but in the end I just use FastMail (paid plan).
blfr 9y ago
Keeping the server up to date and secure is mostly done by your distro maintainers. The only issues you will have to deal with is configuration and deliverability.
ZenoArrow 9y ago
> "But keeping a whole server up to date, secure, etc.... that's a full time job. Is there a good solution?" I recently signed up for ProtonMail. https://protonmail.com/ https://protonmail.com/ I wanted a reasonably cheap and secure email service that allowed me to use custom domains. Proton Mail seemed like a good fit. No complaints so far. One other option that I almost went with was Rackspace Webmail: https://www.rackspace.com/en-gb/email-hosting/webmail https://www.rackspace.com/en-gb/email-hosting/webmail However, that $2 per user per month only applies if you buy a minimum of 5 user licences, so it worked out more expensive for me than the 5 Euros a month for ProtonMail Plus: https://protonmail.com/pricing https://protonmail.com/pricing
- dboreham 9y ago
  I don't know if they still do this but in the past Rackspace would waive the 5 mbx minimum if you called them.

qznc 9y ago

I switched to mailbox.org where I'm a paying customer. That feels better than being a ad target at Gmail.

chrisper 9y ago
>That feels better than being a ad target at Gmail. I believe they stopped this recently. But you could have always become a paying customer of Google.
- duckMuppet 9y ago
  They stopped scanning for purposes of targeted advertising. However, they still scan and read email. People can't be inconvenienced. I tend to think this is worse than scanning for ads. I also tend to think anyone concerned about privacy moved from Google long ago. After all, its terrifying when you allow a company to determine if perhaps your received/sent links are fake, or malware, maybe they should report that you like certain sites, or have a flight.. People lived the idea of the President maxing out his power with executive orders, until they didn't.. Life is ask about tradeoffs i suppose.. http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/google-gmail-ads-emails-1202477321/ http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/google-gmail-ads-emails...

innocenat 9y ago

I have been down that route before. My realization come when I was blocked out of my main GMail account for ~24 hours. I have consider setting up my own email server, but in the end I just use FastMail (paid plan).

blfr 9y ago

Keeping the server up to date and secure is mostly done by your distro maintainers. The only issues you will have to deal with is configuration and deliverability.

ZenoArrow 9y ago

> "But keeping a whole server up to date, secure, etc.... that's a full time job. Is there a good solution?" I recently signed up for ProtonMail. https://protonmail.com/ https://protonmail.com/ I wanted a reasonably cheap and secure email service that allowed me to use custom domains. Proton Mail seemed like a good fit. No complaints so far. One other option that I almost went with was Rackspace Webmail: https://www.rackspace.com/en-gb/email-hosting/webmail https://www.rackspace.com/en-gb/email-hosting/webmail However, that $2 per user per month only applies if you buy a minimum of 5 user licences, so it worked out more expensive for me than the 5 Euros a month for ProtonMail Plus: https://protonmail.com/pricing https://protonmail.com/pricing

dboreham 9y ago
I don't know if they still do this but in the past Rackspace would waive the 5 mbx minimum if you called them.