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No it's not. The absolute vast majority of professional and personal emails go through the big 3, Gmail, Yahoo, msn/hotmail/outlook. What we need is better la
by harshalizee 1y ago
No it's not.
The absolute vast majority of professional and personal emails go through the big 3, Gmail, Yahoo, msn/hotmail/outlook.
What we need is better laws to ensure email is treated similar to utilities with strong consumer protection and appeal system, not victim blaming.
- raxxorraxor 1y agoI think this is vastly different in countries outside the US, where self hosted mail servers are still very common.
- immibis 1y agoSelf-hosted mail servers are not common anywhere. Smaller providers are more common in some places. Small provider isn't the same as self-hosted; neither is enterprise.
- raxxorraxor 1y agoThere are still countless exchange servers running in the default enterprise MS setup. Perhaps not for long since MS nudges people into their cloud, but they are still fairly common.
- dagw 1y agoWhich countries are you thinking about? Honestly haven't seen a company in the EU self hosting email for probably 15 years, and I used to run the email server at a company.
- rekabis 1y agoI’m talking about not putting all your eggs into one basket. Of which OP’s nightmare is the perfect example. I wouldn’t lean on a Gmail eMail when building Android apps in the same way I wouldn’t lean on an iCloud eMail when building iOS apps. If they get ticked off at you, they can cause you to lose everything. They can pull the rug out from under you at a moment’s notice. And while I have accounts under both, they’re throwaways that only see use as backup eMail. It’s why you always need to fully separate your concerns. Use a third-party hosting that won’t otherwise skullf*k you because of something you have done elsewhere or with a service they don’t own. I mean, if they don’t own that service, why would they shaft you?