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> it's 'a gigantic pain in the ass' which is (in normal word use) one form of 'hard'. Which is why most sane people stopped doing it themselves say 15 years ago
by jwr 7y ago
> it's 'a gigantic pain in the ass' which is (in normal word use) one form of 'hard'. Which is why most sane people stopped doing it themselves say 15 years ago
I've been running my own mail server since 2000 or so. It isn't hard, it takes almost no time at all, and I have my own independent mail that nobody reads, and I make the decision of which mail to accept.
I will take the liberty of classifying the above comment as FUD.
- lonelappde 7y agoYou can use hosted mail with pgp/gpg if you don't want anyone reading your mail. Otherwise your mail is read in transit on the way to you anyway, so self hosting is false privacy.
- AlexCoventry 7y agoIsn't most SMTP traffic over TLS, these days?
- pseudalopex 7y agoMost SMTP traffic is to or from a few large companies.
- jwr 7y agoIncidentally, it is threads like these that make me regret posting anything on HN. Respond to a vaguely worded FUD with a specific first-person example (of doing something for almost 20 years, no less), and get downvoted into negative territory.