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I would advise not to. Use a mail provider like mailbox.org I had the same idea and this just puts time on your hands without that much benefit. If you want to
by weitzj 7y ago
I would advise not to. Use a mail provider like mailbox.org
I had the same idea and this just puts time on your hands without that much benefit. If you want to, self host maybe one email address which is not that important to you.
When you self host, you have to take care of security updates, system restarts, monitoring, backups, restore. Depending on where you put your server, some providers might reject your address, since it might look suspicious.
Sure enough it is easy to setup a bare Mailserver. But all the other things like keeping it alive and well take more time.
I chose between fastmail.com and mailbox.org and settled on mailbox.org
Fastmail’s web ui is ... faster, search works better.
Mailbox is in Germany which settled it for me.
- xenonite 7y agoWell the hassle in my experience is actually to ensure your mail doesn’t get flagged as spam. A note about German mail servers: if they have more than one thousand users, they are required by law to setup a surveillance black box for the government since around 2004.
- jooize 7y agoWhoa, source regarding German email servers? Germany's privacy protections seem generally considered strong. > Germany introduced a data retention law that forces companies to store data for ten weeks. Fortunately, the German law does not affect Tutanota because email is explicitly excluded from the German data retention law. In addition, we are convinced that the law is against the German constitution. German Internet activists are already working on a constitutional complaint. They are fighting for the current law being declared unconstitutional - just like a previous German data retention law that was declared unconstitutional in 2010. — (2015-12-19) [2] [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_retention#Germany https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_retention#Germany [2]: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/data-privacy-germany/ https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/data-privacy-germany/
- xenonite 7y agoSure I can source this. I didn’t mean the data retention laws, but meant the government’s black box that a mail provider needs to put besides his mail server. Actually what I need to correct is the number: it is needed only for more than 10‘000 users. This box resides in the mail provider's network and used as a secure communication bridge with the government: If a judge requires the provider to start the surveillance of some email account, then the provider needs to transfer those mails onto the black box, which transmits it further to the government agency. https://www.golem.de/news/telekommunikationsueberwachung-wie-e-mail-ueberwachung-in-deutschland-funktioniert-1611-124292.html https://www.golem.de/news/telekommunikationsueberwachung-wie... https://posteo.de/blog/posteo-zur-m%C3%A4r-von-der-abh%C3%B6r-schnittstelle https://posteo.de/blog/posteo-zur-m%C3%A4r-von-der-abh%C3%B6...