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I switched to my hosted email, it is not so difficult to manage, and I feel very free. Also I have created accounts for my children, my wife with very little c

I switched to my hosted email, it is not so difficult to manage, and I feel very free. Also I have created accounts for my children, my wife with very little costs. The magic? This very well supported project: https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver

eddieroger 5y ago
I have been doing this for a few months for similar reasons - particularly spinning up family accounts with little additional overhead - but decided to pass in favor of hosted. Getting everything set up was fine enough and my mail was eventually being received in places I expected (I had to add my domain in Google's panel somewhere), but I noticed lag on receiving stuff, and was still occasionally ending up in spam folders. How are you overcoming that? Forwarding stuff off? Do you host in a VPS somewhere?
jacquesm 5y ago
Typically solutions like that will work for a few months or years and then you are in much bigger trouble than before. Highly annoying. This is because just like every other server you will need to keep it up to date, you are going to have to deal with being falsely labelled as a spammer, you will have people attempting to abuse your server and so on. I'm still doing this but the overhead is such that I'm tempted to just let it go and move to Fastmail or something similar.
- chrisan 5y ago
  Even paid email you can be identified as a spammer. I use Namecheap's private email for my side project. I do zero marketing/automated emails. All of a sudden my hand written emails to clients were going to spam. Namecheap verified my spf/dmarc/etc was all setup correctly and told me there was nothing they can do. I don't communicate often and am just using my personal email address for now, but I'm looking to switch providers
- AnonC 5y ago
  To add to those points, one day you (the person with self-hosted email) would die and your family will be left without emails sometime soon and no way to get their widely used addresses back. Choosing a medium or large third party provider means you just need to document “go to <this site> and manage payments to pay <this much> <this often> to retain your address; this is how you contact customer support in case something isn’t working”.

eddieroger 5y ago

I have been doing this for a few months for similar reasons - particularly spinning up family accounts with little additional overhead - but decided to pass in favor of hosted. Getting everything set up was fine enough and my mail was eventually being received in places I expected (I had to add my domain in Google's panel somewhere), but I noticed lag on receiving stuff, and was still occasionally ending up in spam folders. How are you overcoming that? Forwarding stuff off? Do you host in a VPS somewhere?

jacquesm 5y ago

Typically solutions like that will work for a few months or years and then you are in much bigger trouble than before. Highly annoying. This is because just like every other server you will need to keep it up to date, you are going to have to deal with being falsely labelled as a spammer, you will have people attempting to abuse your server and so on. I'm still doing this but the overhead is such that I'm tempted to just let it go and move to Fastmail or something similar.

chrisan 5y ago
Even paid email you can be identified as a spammer. I use Namecheap's private email for my side project. I do zero marketing/automated emails. All of a sudden my hand written emails to clients were going to spam. Namecheap verified my spf/dmarc/etc was all setup correctly and told me there was nothing they can do. I don't communicate often and am just using my personal email address for now, but I'm looking to switch providers
AnonC 5y ago
To add to those points, one day you (the person with self-hosted email) would die and your family will be left without emails sometime soon and no way to get their widely used addresses back. Choosing a medium or large third party provider means you just need to document “go to <this site> and manage payments to pay <this much> <this often> to retain your address; this is how you contact customer support in case something isn’t working”.