Comment on Have you tried self-hosting your own email recently?
koala@programming.dev 1 day ago
Reminder that you can go for hybrid approaches; receive email and host IMAP/webmail yourself, and send emails through someone like AWS. I am not saying you can’t do SMTP yourself, but if you want to just dip your toes, it’s an option.
You get many of the advantages; you control your email addresses, you store all of the email and control backups, etc.
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And another thing: you could also play with chatmail.at/relays ; which is pretty cool. I had read about Delta Chat, but decided to play with it recently and… it’s blown my mind.
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
Indeed. Owning your mail is a spectrum. I think it’s really best to transition from something like gmail to fully owning the stack in steps, over a significant amount of time. It will take a while to change over the address on everything a while anyway. No real need to go whole-hog right away and then burn out.