I have my own domain for email which is iain@workingsoftware.com.au but I also have iaindooley.com (although I haven't used that for email for some time). I ru

I have my own domain for email which is iain@workingsoftware.com.au but I also have iaindooley.com (although I haven't used that for email for some time). I run a DTC server (like open source CPanel) on which I manage email addresses for my workingsoftware.com.au domains, but I just forward all mail from there (for multiple accounts) to a single gmail account, iaindooley@gmail.com. I have setup that account to allow me to send email as multiple different accounts, and send using my own, external SMTP server so that it looks "real". I then have fetchmail running on one of my servers which downloads everything from gmail (except the spam) and I mostly read my email with alpine although using gmail as a waypoint has the advantage of lots and lots of free storage, excellent search and very easy accessibility from the web and multiple devices. I periodically archive this when it gets too big onto the same server that holds my nightly backups (a 5.3TB RAID-Z NAS in the same rack as my primary development machine). If my gmail account got hacked and all my messages were deleted, I'd still have them (because I POP them off) and the email address that I use publicly is not associated with my gmail address, so I would just be able to open a different gmail account and forward my mail there. I'd lose the ability to search a crapload of messages, though, without un-archiving all my old tarballs that I'd popped off of gmail but that's more of an inconvenience than a catastrophe.