When called out on it, they then doubled down on this dogshit take: https://archive.ph/quYyb
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And that's that... I was building up momentum at home to just move to proton mail. Now? Now I got no choice but to figure out another way to self host my own email somehow. That's an f-ing PITA.
Posteo
Or email in a box
Or addy.io
Dude! These are really good suggestions! Thanks a bunch!
Self hosting email is very easy, but one thing you have to know is that you can’t proxy your email server through CloudFlare, so if that’s a problem for you, you’re gonna have to figure out some other service.
Setting up self-hosted email is very easy.
Maintaining it is a massive pain in the ass.
I gave up on 2015.
This guy gave up recently. https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-twenty-three-years-i-have-thrown-in-the-towel-the-oligopoly-has-won.html
This is the exact post I was thinking about as well
Yeah I read that too, so I stopped trying.
I’ll take your word on it, when I found out I had to expose my actual IP, I decided it wasn’t worth it and stuck with Proton.
Yup, exactly. But now? Now who? This situation such big time.
I mean you can use an SMTP gateway, but that kinda defeats the purpose, since they can read your emails, and you are still dependent on that service. Finding a good and trustworthy, encrypted email provider is probably easier. Don't forget that you can still use a custom domain.
Is it? Running a mail server is easy, sure, but is actually ensuring that everyone you're trying to send email to will actually receive it, rather than being spam-filtered?