This is veering WAY off topic, but I’m curious that for only 2k users you find 
it effective to run your own email.  Having done it myself for years I can’t 
imagine diving back in unless it was a full time thing.  

> On Jun 29, 2021, at 12:37 PM, Bill Cole 
> <mmlist-20120...@billmail.scconsult.com> wrote:
> 
> I help manage email systems that see unceasing attempts to break into 
> accounts, often using username+password combinations leaked by other systems. 
> At any point in time, one smallish mail system I work with (~2k users) will 
> have dozens of attack sources temporarily blocked at the network level by 
> automated tools that can detect some careless authentication attacks. The 
> simple fact that the Bad Guys find this sort of attack to be worth mounting 
> is enough for me to know that it is worth mitigating, even if I were not 
> aware of how exactly they use compromised accounts. Unfortunately, due to 
> users ignoring vehement advice about password re-use, I have seen the impact 
> that email compromise can have on both businesses and on individual lives.

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