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Comment by 🚀 hedgehog

Re: "We really should host our own email servers on VPSes"

In: s/self-hosted

Legal Aspect: Suppression of communications is illegal in Germany (criminal law), no one yet bothered

Security Aspect: It is so much easier to monitor the 'Big E-Mail Systems', that is why there is no political interest in regulation IMHO (tags: terrorists, childporn, immigrants, ...)

Personal Aspect: I am running my own for years with different software (exim, postfix, opensmtpd) and with only SPF I can finally (after a decade or so) mail to google and hotmail. I would not give my IP Adresse/Hostname away lightly ..

Technical Aspect: Setting up E-Mail Server and POP/IMAP is done in a few hours; Spam filtering is a nightmare

🚀 hedgehog

Aug 30 · 1 day ago

4 Later Comments ↓

💎 istvan · Aug 30 at 14:09:

rspam does a pretty fine job of spam filtering. Just grab a couple thousand dummy mails to train it on as SPAM, and then use your own personal email archive as HAM. I have very few true junk mails that escape the spam box.

❤️ James · Aug 30 at 15:37:

I think it just depends on whether it’s something you feel you have the time to do. Running a mail server always felt like work to me - at least more work that anything else I run. I’d rather spend my time doing something else.

Misfin does look interesting for folk in this world.

👾 fab [OP] · Aug 30 at 16:31:

For me there's not much time required to spend on my mail server. Just update regularly and if some spam really comes through, I'll put it in the Junk folder with one keypress and rspamd will take care of it.

🚲 CitySlicker · 2 hours ago:

I ran a mail server for a bit, but as others have said, it becomes a real chore. Nowadays I just use migadu and I don't have to worry about my emails being rejected by Google and others.

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🌒 s/self-hosted

We really should host our own email servers on VPSes — I got an email reply from someone who discovered my email 10 days after sending in his spam folder. I'm not sure why - maybe he hosts his domain at Outlook.com or Gmail and it's difficult to build up reputation for these A-holes. Or it may be because my VPS provider is on the UCEPROTECT-L3 blocklist (again). But I really like plaintext email despite all of it's problems. So I think the smolnet/IndieWeb community members should run their own...

💬 fab · 19 comments · 3 likes · Aug 28 · 4 days ago