Hosting email is bad because the few companies everyone tells everyone to use run email. It is fine if hosting email isn't for you but discouraging others to not try is exactly how we lose ground ona completely open protocol. Everyone who is willing should host email. There are "distros" like mailinabox and mailcow that make it very easy. The more folks that host it the more the larger hosts will have to start to be more of a tram player.
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Personally I use addy.io (previously anonaddy). Self-hostable and an easy way to get and control your own email @
It is great.
Mailcow protected by crowdsec, using SMTP2GO as outbound relay. No issues. I even have Addy.io running without issues.
I only allow inbound port 25. All other ports and access can only be done over WireGuard.
Best part is. My emails stay in my control on a server in Canada.
I just wish mailcow supported podman. Weirdly enough, apparently Docker Mailserver does, but I haven't had the energy to sink time into setting it up
I sorta self host my email. Technically aws hosts my email but I've a local postfix and dovecot to serve devices.
That simplifies ip address reputation, dkim, spf, etc. It also provides a backstop if my homelab goes down as messages buffer to s3. I pay a few cents per 1k messages, which effectively means zero.
Given the amount of spam selfhosting your email sounds like the 7th circle of hell. Media servers should be enough, thankyouverymuch
Firewall with pfblocker and good feeds solves most of the problem. Spamassassin and URLBLs still work. It really isn't hard, once you set it up the config never changes. The static IP is by far the worst part.
I do fine.
"Babe, BABE, listen to me! I don't care about what your friends say, Google dress it up like it's something magical, but it's just IMAP under the hood. That Let's Encrypt cert is better than anything VeriSign will sell you. Now let's review your subscribed folders again, I assure you, you saw that college acceptance letter and filed it and it's your own fault for having client side rules."
Let me know if you need on prem Exchange. I got you covered.