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Email ownership, I give up. (lemmy.today)
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I give up.

I tried left and right to try to install an email server so I could degoogle my life.

But therechnical barrier is thick and Google keeps adding more to it. Forget it. I can't even get thru the installation process much less trying to get my shit off Google.

I figure, I don't actually have any need for my email addresses. Just like my phone number. I never call anyone. I'm going to discourage my kids from using email at all. I'll remind everyone I know that I don't use email at every opportunity I get just like I remind people to not call me and that my phone number is not available.

Between spammers and Google, I just don't need this headache in my life. My mom is much less technically savvy than the average pet. So Google will just siphon her data and when the megabits are full then you just delete the old stuff.

You don't need it. No one will spend their life reading your emails when you're gone or watching your videos or listening to your recordings or viewing your photos. There's no need to worry about just deleting the pile of shit you've accumulated. I'm this done.

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[–] Brummbaer@pawb.social 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Same here, I have been doing that for around 20 years now too and I started out with postfix and a list of vmails in a text file.

I wonder where this myth comes from. People host way more out there stuff themselves, but somehow email is too scary ....

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 3 points 2 days ago

Because 99% of helfhosters pull containers, with zero understanding of what they do. They they try email, because heck why not also email, and hit the wall of actually must understand what you are doing or else...

Yes probably selfhosting email is for advanced users, people who at least know how to manage a DNS record and how nwtworking works. Maybe it's just that selfhosting bar has dropped significantly thanks to docker, and indeed email hosting is a bit more complex that just "docker compose pull" approach.

Yet i think people should not be scaring others so easily on email self hosting, it's perfectly doable and fun to do. Maybe don't switch your primary account just imediately to mitigate risks...

[–] eutampieri@feddit.it 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

When you begin hosting you have to wait a bit before your email doesn’t go to spam, at least that was my experience in 2018.

Edit: I just checked and I can now deliver to Hotmail/MS365 too!