> it would be a security nightmare. It's not so much a security nightmare as it is a maintenance nightmare. The whole reason you pay for services is because yo

> it would be a security nightmare. It's not so much a security nightmare as it is a maintenance nightmare. The whole reason you pay for services is because you don't have time (or resources) to deal with it. > security of that box is far below even the worst gmail server If you use one time passwords and/or SSH key only access - it's probably pretty safe. Also changing SSH to some other port and blocking shodan.io bots - and you have filtered out a majority of the script kiddies. I also have an automated script that also downloads a list of known bad guys and adds them to my hosts.deny. > Google are experts at this stuff I wouldn't consider them experts persay - it's just that they have a seemingly infinite number of resources. I'm not saying they don't know what they are doing - but when your only job is to maintain the mail backend servers you could probably do a better job than me. > would you not agree that your email is more secure at google (or a similar provider) than on your own server (a few experts not included) Depends. Are you running Exchange or Dovecot? How savvy are you? Is this in the cloud or in your home? Are the drives encrypted? etc I've purchased a lifetime license for iredadmin and it's worked pretty well. I'm currently hosting it on gandi and thought about offering email hosting.