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mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

As someone who hosts a lot of things: Fuck email hosting. Just get your own domain for a few bucks a year, and use an established provider to host it.

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Illecors@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Honestly - it’s not impossible. Not as simple as spinning up a webserver, but definitely doable. I should probably write something up at some point.

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- AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I can help.
  
  —- START —-
  
  Hello! Are you thinking about hosting your own email? Do you enjoy having a life? Do you want to deal with spf and dkim records? Having to add more storage space? Backing up said emails following the 3-2-1 guide? Finding out you’re residential ISP blocks port 25?
  
  I didn’t think so, and neither do I. Go pay to have someone else host your email.
  
  —- END —-
  
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  - Illecors@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Yea, I should definitely write something down so bollocks like this does not proliferate.
    
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    AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Please do.
    
    Be sure to also put how much time people can realistically expect to spend on each step (including offsite backup and recovery).
    
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  - golden_zealot@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    So what you’re telling me is that…
    
    I have to use DNS for email to work?
    
    And if I ever need more storage, I have to plug in a disk?
    
    And If I want to keep my data I actually have to back it up somehow?
    
    And I need to forward a port or if that’s not possible directly though my ISP, use another service that offers it?
    
    Sorry, none of that is much of a revelation.
    
    Sarcasm aside, while hosting your own email is not as easy as a lot of people make it out to be, it is definitely not as hard as you are describing either.
    
    If anything the hardest part is not even in your list, it would probably be getting enough people to mark your domain as not spam that you get lifted out of automated spam filtering.
    
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  - Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    My main issue was getting mailgun to work (it didn’t) and the imap server kept breaking
    
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