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Mail on OVH, standard services (IMAPs/SMTPs without strange setups) on my domain to avoid anti-spam issues and have less to maintain at home; homeserver who suc
by kkfx 4y ago
Mail on OVH, standard services (IMAPs/SMTPs without strange setups) on my domain to avoid anti-spam issues and have less to maintain at home; homeserver who suck all mails via getmail, autorefile (some) via MailDrop and index them with notmuch. From clients (desktops, a laptop) muchsync over ssh. Planned but not there a WebUI on the homeserver where I'm on the go and I need to search something in my maildirs.
In general I suggest NOT to chose providers offering "safe" services, the more safe/privacy protected etc they claim to be the more likely they do not. What it count is:
- having your own domain, so you can switch from one provider to another NOT change you mail address, all your contacts will not notice the change;
- having mails accessible with standard protocols so it's easy to grab them, for instance GMail IMAP is crap, Tutanota do not offer standard protocols, you are essentially bound to them, Proton offer JMAP witch is NOT proprietary but still not much spread to have a good support and so on;
- having you mails on your iron, you can sync them with OfflineIMAP and nothing else for mere "live copy" on a home server and eventually back to another IMAP if needed;
- if you can USE them with a personal MUA, no matter if a WebUI or TUI or whatever but something local so in case of trouble on the upstream you are still partially operational and if you change the upstream provider you keep your usual UI.
All the above are from very easy and cheap to moderately easy and cheap (at least in absolute terms). Other options might be far less easy and less cheap.