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You might want to look at Fastmail.com, a paid e-mail service with actual customer support. They provide a web-based interface, mobile apps and also IMAP access, and you can use your own domain with it if you like. (I've been happily using it for a few years now, and first heard about it here on HN.)
You might want to look at Fastmail.com, a paid e-mail service with actual customer support. They provide a web-based interface, mobile apps and also IMAP access, and you can use your own domain with it if you like. (I've been happily using it for a few years now, and first heard about it here on HN.)
Worth checking out in your usecase, as it seems.
> having phone apps reading all my email
That is bullshit. Those news articles simply misreported the fact that Google's API allows developers to ask your permission to access your mailbox. It's actually more secure, because the alternative with other providers would be to give your credentials directly.
Virtualmin is a little old-school, and hosting-oriented, but you can easily set up a mail server with SPF, DKIM, SSL w/ LetsEncrypt, etc. out of the box. I've never had any problems in over 5 years with sending or receiving and I just turn on automatic updates for Debian. Only issue is if the IP you get from the hosting provider is blacklisted, so remember to check that before you start setting it up. I use DigitalOc…
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Even if you secure your side of communications you're at the mercy of people who send and receive email to and from you. If most of the people you communicate with are also on gmail then your conversations are stored in plain text, just on their accounts. You don't have any privavcy with email and should just treat it as almost public discourse. A better alternative is to switch to a secure messaging app.
https://cloudron.io/ has a very decent email setup plus a lot of other apps all one-click installable. Worth checking out in your usecase, as it seems.