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I know there are alternatives like proton mail, tutamail, mailbox.org, etc... But what would be the issue if I create an email using my personal domain, stored in my hosting.. maybe encryption? It seems that no-one even consider this option, but I am not sure why...

What would you suggest?

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[–] brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org 1 points 4 months ago

@skamu@lemmy.world opensmtpd + dovecot is the easiest combo to set up and works fine

I have my own domain and pay for Zoho to host my email. It works well aside from the occasional site that refuses to accept my email as valid because it's not a .com/org domain.

[–] tedcurran@thebrainbin.org -2 points 4 months ago

one more reason why self hosted email just isn't competitive with free/cheap cloud email is the client UX. Gmail is very feature rich while your self hosted email will likely run on RoundCube or SquirrelMail which are extremely barebones.

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