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I agree vehemently with this: "Email security is your top priority" However, the author shows a complete lack of understanding of email security. Gmail is NOT
by johnklos 5y ago
I agree vehemently with this: "Email security is your top priority"
However, the author shows a complete lack of understanding of email security. Gmail is NOT secure.
While it may be "secure enough" for many people, the fact that there are people out there who have unfettered access to your email can't be ignored. The fact that if Google decides to cancel your account you can do absolutely nothing about it can't be ignored.
Someone who thinks Gmail or Outlook give you more security, and not less, than a good systems administrator can provide should learn more about how email works before making such recommendations.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 5y agoWhat's the alternative? Hosting it yourself means you now have a second full time job, which you will most likely do poorly, creating a lot of risk for yourself. It will also break at the most inopportune time, forcing you to spend time on it right then (within a window of a few days) or lose mail. You will also most likely host it on a rented server, which means you'll have just as much, if not more, attack surface than with email-as-a-service. As a package maintainer of anything reasonably important, you at least have access to "twitter support".
- johnklos 5y agoThere are more options than just monopolies or doing it yourself. Find a person or organization who does it and does it well, and use them. Do you think, for instance, that the FreeBSD project just runs email off of a technically inept service like outlook.com? Or would ever?