I agree that sticking with an unmaintained house of cards isn't a great idea, and I agree that fully self-hosted email is pretty likely to be jank in one way or

I agree that sticking with an unmaintained house of cards isn't a great idea, and I agree that fully self-hosted email is pretty likely to be jank in one way or another - I'm just trying to push back a little on two ideas floating around in this thread: 1) any deviation from the fully-hosted happy path is necessarily a house of cards and 2) the fully-hosted happy path doesn't have risks of its own Specifically, I have a domain prepaid for a decade pointing at a mail host prepaid for a decade. I've had this setup for decades and it has literally never broken. In this timeframe I and many friends and family been locked out of Google accounts for one reason or another. If I had to bet money on a family member's ability to access this setup after I have an unscheduled meeting with a bus, vs. their ability to maintain access to a Google account, I'd bet on my setup, not least because that setup involves actual (pre)paid support. So yeah - house of cards bad, but some degree of control doesn't have to mean house of cards. I think we're mostly in agreement - just wanted to try to outline where I'm coming from a little more specifically.