> These days I'm very happy to pay somebody else to run email services using my provided domains. I was in a similar boat, though I bailed much longer ago than

> These days I'm very happy to pay somebody else to run email services using my provided domains. I was in a similar boat, though I bailed much longer ago than you. I think "Big Email" is happy to let enough spam flourish in the world so that it presents enough of an excuse to tighten the screws to make it effectively impossible to run your own server... just so that more and more mail goes through their servers to be mined for personal data. That's why I don't use Gmail any more, but it wouldn't shock me to find out that Apple is doing something with my email data too.