On Monday, September 12, 2022 at 15:15:55 +0000, Nacho via Mutt-users wrote:
> What you describe is becoming more and more history, which I regret.
> Let me give you the link of an article that should interest you.
>
>
https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-twenty-three-years-i-have-thrown-in-the-towel-the-oligopoly-has-won.html
I don't agree with that article, it has some technical errors I will not discuss
here because of lack of time and it being off topic.
But in short, today it's just a matter of money and time to have your own
email system working perfectly, of course the cost have increased wildly in the
last few years and will keep doing so, but at least for me makes all the sense
to pay for it.
I tend to concur. I run just fine for several years now my own
SMTP/IMAP servers + Let's Encrypt certificate on a cheap VPS
(< $20/year).
It took some work to set it up, but that's it. Surely not a mass
solution, yet feasible and stable.
Messages sent to Google accounts tick all green boxes.
Only Microsoft (outlook.com, hotmail.com) seem to filter the
whole IP block, but I am too lazy to ask the provider to fix or
change provider altogether.
Given the cheap VPS, I can mirror the setup on a second VPS from
a different provider with quick DNS switch in case of issues.
HTH.
Mihai
