Currently using Tutanota but they’ve just retired my current plan and doubled the price.
I’m looking into hosting my own email. I would like to have encryption but it doesn’t function very well when both sender and receiver need to be on the same platform. In addition none of the information being sent by email is overly sensitive so it’s not a must.
Anyone that’s hosting their own email or has experience/knowledge of Lavabit that would care to chime in I’d be greatly appreciative.
I looked into mail-in-a-box but the software they used was outdated and the setup was rather rigid. Hosting other sites on a miab server can be done, but it’s not officially supported.
I opted for Mailcow instead. Still easy to set up (you’ll need to manually copy/paste some DNS entries) but more modular and making fewer assumptions about the underlying system.
If you go with your own email server, make sure to take all the necessary precautions. SPF, DKIM, strict DMARC, reverse PTR records, valid TLS certificates, the whole deal.
You need to make sure to pick a good platform to host your server on, though. There’s a blacklist used by Microsoft that will blacklist your mail server for merely being in the IP space of an ISP that doesn’t take spam prevention seriously. Most budget providers aren’t on that list.
Was planning on hosting from my home server. Will definitely read up on those protocols and the recommendations. Have certificates and domain routed through Cloudflare. ISP is Optus but it’s not a business connection so that could be problematic r.e: spam filters :/
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What about self hosting the IMAP but using for example Amazon ses SMTP? In this way it won’t be on the blacklist
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Can only recommend against hosting at home, at least in Germany all ISPs “normal user” IP addresses are on one spam list or another. I now have my mailserver setup in a VPS.