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[–] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

self host is the best solution if you want total control of your emails

[–] piefood@feddit.online 4 points 2 days ago

Too true. self-hosters represent!

[–] RockLobstore@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How hard is that? And how secure would it actually be? Not criticizing just curious why more people don’t do it.

[–] KRAW@linux.community 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Every time I've looked into it, most advice I've gotten was that it's not a good idea.

[–] SanicHegehog@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago

It sucks ass. The following was my experience when I tried it- you may have better luck.

  1. I was bending over backwards to convince other email providers to accept my outgoing messages
  2. The spam. Good God, the spam.