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> other mail servers on the internet can catch your mails in flight This also shouldn't be a problem most of the time if your email server supports TLS; Googl
by judge2020 5y ago
> other mail servers on the internet can catch your mails in flight
This also shouldn't be a problem most of the time if your email server supports TLS; Google currently sees 81% outbound email encryption[0], so you can imagine roughly 4/5ths of email servers support it.
0: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safer-email/overview?hl=en https://transparencyreport.google.com/safer-email/overview?h...
- 3np 5y agoIndeed. It was more of an inb4 of the common reply of “there is 0 privacy gains of self-hosting email since most of the people you’re mailing with will be on one of the big providers anyway”, which is tired and defeatist.
- Talanes 5y agoTired, defeatist, and giving way too much credit to the big guys. No matter how good they are at assembling a profile on me from indirect data, it's still going to be more effort and likely lower quality than if they had a giant store of data labelled as mine.