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?
Well i kinda did that when i started selfhosting way too much a number of years ago… it can be quite annoying trying to get your server out of blocklists (if you need to change servers, because of ip reusing from hosters) and unless you use something like Servercow, it is easy to break things and it kinda hard to find proper tooling for selfservice and stuff… nowadays i mostly keep it like it is because i don’t want to deal with trying to migrate people to a different setup. It’s okey and most of the time it just does it job, but it doesn’t give too much joy :P
Hah. Not the fun DIY project I hoped it would be. Oh well. Yeah, don’t want to get to the point of being responsible for other people’s data.