DidacticDumbassJun 12, 2023

Does anyone run their own email server?

https://lemmy.one/post/81542

Does anyone run their own email server? - Lemmy.one

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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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.
Jun 13, 2023 at 12:59amWeb
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Ah, I knew there was a gotcha. Yeah, I can't even entertain the idea of local email server... Well, sure, maybe some kind of intranet for family and friends, but they none of them really care for this stuff.

I am familiar with Luke Smith, hell I have probably seen the video explaining this. I jist thought it was like a CLI mail client. I will look into it.