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> self-host anything important like mail Email is basically pointless to host yourself from a privacy perspective. Every email has one or more people on the ot
by bachmeier 6y ago
> self-host anything important like mail
Email is basically pointless to host yourself from a privacy perspective. Every email has one or more people on the other end that also get a copy. Privacy and email are mutually exclusive. That said, the alternative doesn't have to be something like gmail, where they can do whatever they want with your data. I use Fastmail and that's "sufficiently private" for my needs.
- kmonsen 6y agoAlso you disconnect email from other cloud services. So if you do something bad with your android app development you don't suddenly loose your email. Or if you forgot to pay your apple card you don't loose access to the email etc. I think diversification is valuable here.
- vlozko 6y agoThe Apple example was proven to be inaccurate. The loss of access to email wasn't due to him not paying his Apple Card; it was for not paying for his iCloud services. In other words, his shutoff could have happened if he had his iCloud account set up to charge to any other credit card.
- dcurtis 6y agoThis is incorrect. (Author of that article.)
- Skunkleton 6y agoI use Fastmail + a custom domain. Because fastmail is the provider, I am not on any spam lists. My emails make it through. My service is very reliable, so I always get my emails. If fastmail decides to hate me, I can just point my domain MX records somewhere else. TODO: need a non-fastmail backup of my email
- Matumio 6y agoI'm doing that with a cronjob calling mbsync. This gives me offline mail access with mutt or even grep.