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All this new excitement with Lemmy and federation has got me thinking that maybe I should learn to run my own instance. What always comes up though is how email is the orginal federated technology.

I am looking at proxmox and see that is has a built in email server, so now I am wondering if it is time to role my own.

I stopped using gmail a long time ago, and right now I use ProtonMail, but I am super frustrated with the dumb limitation of only having a single account for the app. I get why they do it, and I am willing to pay, but it is pricey and I don't know if that is my best option. I guess it is worth it since ProtonVPN is included. It looks like they are expanding their suite.

Is it worth it? Can I make it secure? Is it stupid to run it off a local computer on my home network?

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[–] jonne@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used to, I don't any more. All the other comments are right, spam is a huge issue, and you can get blacklisted for no reason without recourse. I'm personally using migadu.com, which gives me some of the flexibility of running my own server without the hassle.

[–] DidacticDumbass@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay, this looks like a cool solution. I think I have been convinced, given my on level of expertise, I could not pull it off without a huge time sync just to get the scaffolding to understand the tech.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, you're not going to miss digging through postfix logs to work out why you didn't get an email because you enabled greylisting while the remote MTA keeps trying to resend an important email with a different IP address.

Email is a rabbit hole that keeps getting deeper and more complex every year, and unless you get paid to do it, you don't want it in your life.

[–] DidacticDumbass@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

I don't even read the logs on my linux system when something goes bad... I should change that, but email seems to be a full time job.