In my experience, the brutality grows rapidly with the number of users. If it's just for you, and you have at least one alternative account, then it's not bruta

In my experience, the brutality grows rapidly with the number of users. If it's just for you, and you have at least one alternative account, then it's not brutal at all. A mailserver administrator is a sysadmin. Being a sysadmin is on the face of it unrewarding - nobody pats you on the back when everything is working normally. They only call you when there's a problem (and it's usually urgent, and sometimes critical, and they'd like to know who to blame). So if you run a mailserver with users, it starts to become a people job, and things begin to matter. People certainly rely on email to a greater extent than other services - even mobile. I can order goods online without surrendering my mobile number, but I always have to provide an email address before I can complete the order. But I've still enjoyed administering mailservers. Perhaps I liked the slight paranoia induced by trying to reconcile the boss's demands for functionality with his demands for security.