You may look at a problem and think "Aha! The solution is to run my own email server." Now you have two problems, Google is marking all of your email as spam, an unknown number of threat actors using your server to spread malware because you forgot to patch something, and a small pile of subpoenas.

@evacide@hachyderm.io

Problem: Google is marking all my e-mail as spam
Solution: I don't want to talk to people using gmail.

@evacide

Also, this isn’t supposed to be my full time job.

Also, also I have a hard enough time just getting through my inbox.

@CptSuperlative @evacide getting through your inbox isn't a problem anymore when Big Email stop delivering to your server.

You may look at a problem and think "Aha! The solution is to run my own email server." Now you have two problems, Google is marking all of your email as spam, an unknown number of threat actors using your server to spread malware because you forgot to patch something, and a small pile of subpoenas.

@evacide I've been running my own server for years. (I used to operate the mail for a tier-3 ISP.)

I can't recommend the practice lightly.

The main reason I can't recommend it has nothing to do with security - that's much easier to do these days than it's ever been.

It's exactly as you say: Gmail and the other secret email police don't want you to run your own stuff. Nevermind that the majority of my spam is coming in from G and O365 validated domains these days.

@jhaas I tend to enter any sort of self-hosting carefully since I know how the sausage is made and don't like the idea of having to do urgent tech support for my own critical services for free after having to do it all day long. years ago a friend offered to host a VM for me to run my own mail server as he does for a number of other friends. I declined because, "then I'd have an idiot running my mail server"