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All this new excitement with Lemmy and federation has got me thinking that maybe I should learn to run my own instance. What always comes up though is how email is the orginal federated technology.

I am looking at proxmox and see that is has a built in email server, so now I am wondering if it is time to role my own.

I stopped using gmail a long time ago, and right now I use ProtonMail, but I am super frustrated with the dumb limitation of only having a single account for the app. I get why they do it, and I am willing to pay, but it is pricey and I don't know if that is my best option. I guess it is worth it since ProtonVPN is included. It looks like they are expanding their suite.

Is it worth it? Can I make it secure? Is it stupid to run it off a local computer on my home network?

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[–] zmhanham@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Infomaniak has pretty nice free email server options that you can link your domain to. They are a Switzerland based company which is known for having the best privacy laws around.

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[–] cow@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I run my own on digitalocean. I used https://github.com/lukesmithxyz/emailwiz to set it up. I do not use it as my main email account. Relating to hosting it with your own hardware, your isp probably blocks forwarding port 25 which would make that impossible.

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[–] Protegee9850@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

“No. No, man. Hell no. No, i imagine someone would get their ass kicker if they said something like that”

[–] falcon15500@lemmy.nine-hells.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interestingly enough, I read a thread about this yesterday - https://beehaw.org/post/214684

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