+1 to not running your own mail.
When I/we stopped running my own mail server decades ago I switched to
tuffmail which alas shut down in 2022, and then purelymail -- I suspect
they were both setup by mail/sysop nerds who realised it made no sense
to run a mail server just for yourself and squared that by providing it
as a very clean modest well run service to others, engineered well to
address the risk associated them being pretty much one man bands. I
recall one modest service interruption over those decades. My local copy
is in my dropbox folder.
On 02/08/2025 16:15, Suresh Ramasubramanian via Silklist wrote:
I used to and my email is now on google apps.
Should probably be on iCloud custom domains given where I work but
whatever.
--srs
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I have observed at close quarters friends who host their own email
(including hosting my email, and this list) and, to quote Taj, I
recommend it to absolutely nobody. Email is broken, and needs 24/7
professional to work reliably in this brave new world.
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On Sat, 2 Aug 2025, 18:16 Sirtaj Singh Kang via Silklist,
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 29/07/25 16:07, Udhay Shankar N via Silklist wrote:
You?
I've run my own mail server for the last .. hmm.. 25 years or so
now? Because email (along with a domain name) is the last line of
defence for identity on the internet, flawed as it is.
I am glad I do this, and I recommend it to absolutely nobody. It's
a pain, and frankly the last thing I'd want to do is be
responsible for anyone else's email. For example, I "allow" my
wife to use my mail server, but I also relay all her mail to
fastmail just in case.
-Taj.
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