Where is Bharat Chari when you need him? @Bharath Chari Estonia <[email protected]> is the master of running stuff and living without any major providers. But I'm not sure what he's doing these days?
On Sat, Aug 2, 2025, 9:32 PM José María Mateos via Silklist < [email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 02, 2025 at 04:49:23PM +0100, Manar Hussain via Silklist wrote: > > > >+1 to not running your own mail. > > I ran my own mail server (on my home computer, on a DSL line, outbound > port 25 open!) around 2002 - 2004. It was fun, I learned a lot, but I > wouldn't do it again. > > However, a strong +1 to having your own domain name and get a good > provider that allows you to use it (I use Fastmail and it works quite > well). That way, when you want to move providers, you just do that, and > your address stays the same. > > The migration might be painful if you're moving from a @gmail.com / > @outlook.com / @yahoo.com / whatever, but that's as good as an e-mail > set up as you're going to get without the headache of having to maintain > it yourself. > > Cheers! > > > -- > José María (Chema) Mateos || https://rinzewind.org > -- > Silklist mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist >
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