> But what's the joy or reward of running your own mail server? Not having to deal with rate limits or weirdness in regards to delivering mail from software in

> But what's the joy or reward of running your own mail server? Not having to deal with rate limits or weirdness in regards to delivering mail from software in an automated manner, which would be there with any of the other "big" hosts. For example, currently i have the following hooked up to a self-hosted e-mail server: - Nextcloud/ownCloud - Mattermost/Rocket.Chat - Drone CI/GitLab - OpenProject - PeerTube - SonarQube - Zabbix Or any number of other pieces of software that could send lots of other e-mails. If i use my own self-hosted mail server, then there are no odd spam filters or whatever to deal with (unless i introduce my own) - i send as many messages as i need and i receive all of them as well, plus all of the data stays wherever i want it to. This is also relevant for older software that might have problems with the more secure methods of delivering mails. Oh and there's not a lot to think about, pricing wise, either. Lastly, running a basic mail server is exceedingly simple with https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver No need to manually configure mail delivery agents or whatever. In my eyes, a mail server with everything it needs should be a single executable/container, with toggleable bits of functionality, rather than some overcomplicated amalgamation of mixed and matched pieces that would need lots of your time to maintain.