Is it useful to have your own mail server as a non-business? Just a private person. Configure SMTP and IMAP for it, sync with outlook I think.
Yay or nay, waste of time? What are your thoughts?
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No.
I would say absolutely not.
waste of time IMO. Most messages will not make it through spam filters because of a bunch of reasons. Just writing your friends would be pointless.
Absolutely not. It’s notoriously hard.
I would recommend to setup your own email server, or should we just all give up, like we gave up to Cloud providers?
Setting it up is easy. Getting the major providers like gmail to not flag your stuff as spam, that’s the real challenge
As a fun project, yes.
As an actual day2day email, no.
Unless u have actual redundancy with 24/7 uptime and static IP, it may caused missed emails. Even if u do, the price is a factor u may need to consider.
Missed emails? Don’t clients retry?
setting up email is easy, configuring it so you don’t get caught in spam filters, and you don’t get a ton is a full time job. I did it for awhile and just didn’t find it worthwhile any longer.
Everyone should at least give it a try, if only so your decision not to is well informed instead of following cargo cult advice.
Honestly, not everything needs to be a firsthand experience to know it’s not something I want to do. Hosting my own email is definitely something I’m good with living through others vicariously.
100% on this suggestion.
i use to setup qmail to host a few domains, works really well, even mail blast is like really efficient. picked up a lot of fundamental about email, dns, ssl along the way.
just make sure you put a good filtering system before the email reaches your server. like mimecast, proofpoint, etc.
nowadays, you can further secure your access to pop3,imap on email server using service like cloudflare tunnel.
I’ve been hosting my own email server for 20 years. Not at home though, fuck trying to do it on a dynamic IP. Also fuck 123-reg for mangling my DKIM and making me think I was going mad.
Email and DNS. I have self-hosted both and I have no regrets. What I ALSO have is zero desire to do so again in the future.
As other said. If you want to see if you can. Yes fun go for it.
Don’t use it for anything important. And know that your ISP will very likely have that port blocked already. And if you call them to ask them to unblock it they are unlikely to be willing to.
This is to prevent scammers and spammers.
Also. Know that even if you were able to. Getting other mail servers to not instantly junk your mail is actually quite difficult or impossible. So your emails would always land in spam, be outright blocked, or be in junk.
“is it recommended” implies that the wisdom of crowds (a) exists, b) applies, c) is correct.
What do YOU want to do? That’s all that matters.
I’ve run my own mail server for over 20 years. I enjoy it, and its nice having my mail sit in my basement.
I once set one up on a raspberry pi. It was compromised in about 5 minutes.
I heard that it is a thing you most likely do not want to have set up
The biggest problem you’ll run into is sending email from your residential internet connection. Most, if not all, residential ISPs either 100% block or severely throttle port 25 outbound traffic to cut down on spam. Even if you’re able to find an ISP that doesn’t block 25 outbound, if the reverse zone lookup indicates that it’s a residential ISP most spam filtering solutions are going to flag all of your messages as spam.
Always fun to do if learning but in production even for personal i would recommend you pay for something like startmail or mailfence and use their custom domain features.
i learned exchange on my own and even had dreams of doing multi tenant exchange until exchange online came and jerked off all over that dream