> I am my own provider. It's really not that hard to configure a mail server. Oh yes it is. I mean for professional sysadmins it may not be, but try talking an

> I am my own provider. It's really not that hard to configure a mail server. Oh yes it is. I mean for professional sysadmins it may not be, but try talking any normal person through buying a domain, getting an SSL certificate, attaching that at your MTA, configuring all those fiddly DNS records that prove you're emails are who you say you are. And all of that isn't even taking into account how needlessly painful the actual process of just installing the MTA is. And what do you have for show from all of that? Still no real assurance that half your mail won't end up in spam, no web front end (that step alone adds several additional layers of complexity), less guarantees regarding up time (since you no have a single server that you need to manage yourself), arguably worse security (since you're now asking a layman to harden a Linux box) and the whole thing comes with a heftier price tag than Gsuite. We're not talking about self hosting an IRC server or other service you can throw up in an hour and then forget about. Email is a frustrating sequence of a multitude of steps where even just one of them could render your set up worthless. Hence why even many of us sysadmins have long since given up self hosting email servers. It's just not worth the effort