Did this for several months. People over talk about how hard it is with no experience doing it. Honestly, it’s a piece of cake. The downside is that it’s time

Did this for several months. People over talk about how hard it is with no experience doing it. Honestly, it’s a piece of cake. The downside is that it’s time consuming because like any system, you must maintain and update it. I self hosted mailcow on a VPS with a service similar to sendgrid and Postmark (forgetting the same now) for outbound email to avoid the blacklisted IP problem. For inbound routing, I used Cloudflare DNS and setup aliases in Mailcow (nice UI). You can use any client you want against your mail server. It’s just an IP and a port (or domain). I did it for awhile because I was already selfhosting a lot. However, 6 months in I was like.. I need to go outside, I’m tired of debugging mail problems. Back to Gmail. Maybe there is a happier middle ground