Its tricky I agree, but not impossible, I started back in the late1990’s I think, and have had 3 mail servers running in that time, so around 20 years now, it started as a hobby for friends, then just slowly expanded into friends business’s and then there was no stopping it, now due to the volume of mail on my servers, I have no choice but to continue it LoL. Why I hear you ask, well it would be up to me to handle all of the transferring to the big places you talk of, and I really don't have the time or inclination to do that, so I continue.
I try to keep up with everything which I think I do, spam received is always the biggest problem for me, its' a fine balance for what I want to receive, and what my ‘clients’ don't want me to lose……. I have never made any money from what I do, like I say, it started as an interesting hobby………. But I like not being part of the big corporations, and so do my ‘clients’ I seem to have coped so far, at times I have thought of packing it all in, but something always stopes me from hitting the kill switch…….. John Devine > On 13 Sep 2022, at 21:18, Chris Adams via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> wrote: > > Once upon a time, Jim Popovitch <jim...@domainmail.org> said: >> I agree. Self hosted email is not hard, and it's just not super easy. :) >> >> The much harder aspect of email is getting your peers, family, and >> friends to adopt encryption. > > Self-hosted email is hard (or really, impossible) for a high enough > percentage of the Internet population that it is effectively 100%. My > father has been using computers since well before I was born, is still > working on rockets today, but I have to explain email technicalities to > him sometimes, things that we just take for granted. > > It's similar in a way to how blogs were popular before a succession of > social media megacorps took over; the average techy could pop up > something on their ISP-provided web space back in the day, but the > average individual online now could not possibly do that. Even dealing > with a hosted WordPress or the like is beyond most. And even the > density of capabale people is way to low to support friends-and-family. > > -- > Chris Adams <c...@cmadams.net> > _______________________________________________ > mailop mailing list > mailop@mailop.org > https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
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