You can, but it is difficult. Spam prevention has made life hard for those that want to host email.
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adespoton@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
It’s sad to me that the answer can’t be “the one you run yourself.”
There’s theoretically no reason why everyone couldn’t run their own mail service who had a domain name. But with spam practices being what they are, self-hosted mail will get binned in most places.
eek2121@lemmy.world 9 months ago
LWD@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Self hosted mail is… not ideal for user privacy. First, you need to choose a provider that stores your data and probably requires your identity, or expose your IP address. Next, you need to figure out who will give you a vanity domain for these emails, and either give your identity to them or risk losing the domain. Then you need to be a Linux security expert. Then you need to hand out your vanity email address on your vanity domain, which sticks out like a sore thumb.