I've used a personal domain for years, and the email address attached to it is the one I care about most, though of course I have a few gmail and other addresses. For years I ran my own email server. But when my ISP crashed and burned (remember SpiritOne and the crook who destroyed it?) and I didn't have a lot of time for research I started paying Google $5/month for a g-suite account. (Everything else moved to Linode, which has been great. I'm pretty sure the recommendation came from this group. Thanks!)
I'd rather not be giving Google my money, but I worry more about the data they're certainly scraping from my mail. Yet when I look occasionally into the Spam folder I can see that I'm getting something in addition to storage for my (now) $6/month. And so the question: what are those of you who have the expertise to run an email server doing? Do you handle your own mail, or do you pay a service to do it for you? If the former, what are the leading choices on a Debian server? If the latter, services to be recommended? I suspect my requirements are pretty limited. When I had the ability to add unlimited email addresses and to run code on every incoming email I used both, but I've gotten used to not being able to do that sort of thing. So I can probably live with a pretty simple service as long as I can access it on a smartphone and through a web interface. Thanks! --Eric -- My g-bike can trounce your e-bike! _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
