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How to run your own mail server (2017)

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Re: How to run your own mail server (2017)

#11
EVERYONE did this for decades.

Then EVERYONE stopped because it's awful. Modern ISPs don't like SMTP floating around, (DKIM, DMARC, SPF) are a pain to maintain over time, exploits will happen, and your free off-the-shelf virus and spam filters suck compared to the big companies seeing billions of messages per day.

Re: How to run your own mail server (2017)

#12

Alternatively pay for a GSuite account for like £3 a month (Or Office 365) and all of this is handled for you with superior spam filtering, search, webmail, no manual administration and no issues with email delivery due to other filters thinking your server is a bit dodgy. It's too much effort to run your own email server well.

I think you might be missing the point.

Re: How to run your own mail server (2017)

#13

Alternatively pay for a GSuite account for like £3 a month (Or Office 365) and all of this is handled for you with superior spam filtering, search, webmail, no manual administration and no issues with email delivery due to other filters thinking your server is a bit dodgy. It's too much effort to run your own email server well.

The obvious rebuttal here is that not everyone is comfortable having a Google or Microsoft account, or having Google and Microsoft scanning their emails.

In that case, Fastmail is a good alternative. It’s not quite as good as Gmail on security and anti-spam, but it’s much better on privacy.

Re: How to run your own mail server (2017)

#15
A ( somewhat ) happy medium between hosting your own email ( and dealing with getting IP blocked ) and fully entrusting youtself to Google is to use webmail as provided by your domain name registrar.

For example, gandi.net provides web mail on your own domain. Even, better, it has support for wildcard email just like google does.

Re: How to run your own mail server (2017)

#16

Alternatively pay for a GSuite account for like £3 a month (Or Office 365) and all of this is handled for you with superior spam filtering, search, webmail, no manual administration and no issues with email delivery due to other filters thinking your server is a bit dodgy. It's too much effort to run your own email server well.

Gsuite is at $6 per month.

Re: How to run your own mail server (2017)

#17
post #6

Alternatively pay for a GSuite account for like £3 a month (Or Office 365) and all of this is handled for you with superior spam filtering, search, webmail, no manual administration and no issues with email delivery due to other filters thinking your server is a bit dodgy. It's too much effort to run your own email server well.

Of even better, use some smaller alternative that is not Google (mailbox.org, protonmail, fastmail, ...). GMail's de-facto monopoly on email (and especially spam filtering) is a threat to the Internet.

If you don't need IMAP/POP3 access and can live with just the webmail and native apps, Tutanota is great and costs almost nothing
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