On 2/24/22 11:36, Grant Taylor via mailop wrote:
Maybe it's silly, but my understanding is that it's more difficult to
/legally/ gain access to my email when it's hosted in my house as
opposed to hosted on a VPS / CO-LO *without* /my/ /knowledge/ of it. As
in the police can take a warrant to the VPS provider / CO-LO and gain
access to things /without/ /my/ /knowledge/. Be it from a lack of
monitoring on my part, gag order, what have you. Conversely, the police
can't come into my home *without* /my/ /knowledge/, even with a warrant.
Note: This is predicated that I am, have been, and will be, WFH during
the execution of the warrant.
Assuming that your home connection is typical residential broadband,
consider a split system. Host your receiving SMTP at home with a dynamic
DNS tracker to keep the MX pointed at your dynamic residential IP and
use this for inbound mail to you.
Because sending mail from a dynamic residential IP is going to be
problematic, use a VPS or VPN to an offsite hosted static IP for your
outbound mail. Do no logging or storage at the offsite location.
Of course, if you're worried about search warrants, capturing traffic in
flight is likely to be the means of interception rather than physical
access to hardware located at your residence, so yes, maybe it's silly.
End-to-end strong encryption isn't really universal for email traffic
between different end systems. Even if it were, tracking the fact that
the communication took place is trivial for three-letter agencies
without visiting your residence even if the content is encrypted.
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Jay Hennigan - j...@west.net
Network Engineering - CCIE #7880
503 897-8550 - WB6RDV
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