I'm well aware of that. Right now it's just as important for me to try to manage my security and privacy.
Hosting the mail server at home would be a possibility (we have a fiber connection). I could also place a server in the datacenter of a friend and do the mail hosting myself. I don't want to spend the time to manage my email hosting since I'm depending on it. Running your own mailserver is not as easy as it sounds like. It's rather time consuming when you want to do it in a sound way:
- Spam filtering
- DKIM
- SPF
- Security
etc... Sure I could follow a $random_tutorial but then I would surely miss a couple of best practices. I don't think this time is well spent because I'm paying other people more knowledgeable about email to do it for me. That's a conscious decision I made. I rather not have an additional party involved when I see no need.
Please note that also used to run/help run a couple of large mail servers. So I have a general idea how they behave and what to do.
Hosting the mail server at home would be a possibility (we have a fiber connection). I could also place a server in the datacenter of a friend and do the mail hosting myself. I don't want to spend the time to manage my email hosting since I'm depending on it. Running your own mailserver is not as easy as it sounds like. It's rather time consuming when you want to do it in a sound way: - Spam filtering - DKIM - SPF - Security etc... Sure I could follow a $random_tutorial but then I would surely miss a couple of best practices. I don't think this time is well spent because I'm paying other people more knowledgeable about email to do it for me. That's a conscious decision I made. I rather not have an additional party involved when I see no need.
Please note that also used to run/help run a couple of large mail servers. So I have a general idea how they behave and what to do.