On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 5:31 PM Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > > On Sun, 20 Sep 2020, Eric House wrote: > > > 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? > > Eric, > > I don't know how you connect to the 'Net; that might affect your decision. > I, too, started with Aracnet and stayed with SpiritOne until it was > unceremoniously destroyed. Now I have ZiplyFiber (a rather ugly name in my > opinion and the third iteration of Verizon -> Frontier Comm -> ZiplyFiber). > > Anywho, I've been running postfix here since 1997 with all these guys. It > supports both my business and personal domain email accounts (my business > web site is hosted at nearlyfreespeech.net, but they don't support e-mail). > I've had no issues with it and I keep it upgraded as Wietse releases bug > fixes and the occasional new feature. > > I'm a happy camper running my own MTA because I control the filters that > reject most of the crap. > > HTH, > > Rich > > Does running your own email server completely stop Google from scraping your email? Your email is received by people that might be using Gmail. The $6 per month is annoying though.
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