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I ran my own mail server for a few months in 2013. I came to the conclusion I'd much rather pay Google $5 a month.
by marsrover 9y ago
I ran my own mail server for a few months in 2013. I came to the conclusion I'd much rather pay Google $5 a month.
- xienze 9y agoFastmail will let you do it for $50 per year if you pay upfront. Just not sure why anyone would run an email server other than extreme paranoia. It’s hardly a set it and forget it affair.
- stewie241 9y agoJust have somebody else run one for you, like Hillary Clinton did.
- 2bluesc 9y agoI ran my own mail server for years because I didn't trust Google with _all_ my data. Started colocated server for a while, then VPS, then cloud. Setting up an maintaining SPAM mechanisms on a low volume mail server is a nightmare. Switched to Fastmail and haven't looked back. Their Android and Web client are great and they've opened their JMAP[0] interface. [0] http://jmap.io/ http://jmap.io/
- ryanlol 9y agoFastmail is great until their support hands your account over to some random person that just happened to ask.
- xienze 9y agohttps://www.fastmail.com/about/privacy.html https://www.fastmail.com/about/privacy.html They have a very strong privacy policy, they’re not just going to hand your email over to a “random” person.
- jacquesm 9y ago> Just not sure why anyone would run an email server other than extreme paranoia. Compliance. NDA's.
- CaptSpify 9y agoHow is it not set and forget? I set up my configs ~5 years ago, and other than apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade, I havent had to do anything