On: How to Run Your Own Mail Server (2017)

[xienze]

Fastmail will let you do it for $50 per year if you pay upfront. Just not sure why anyone would run an email server other than extreme paranoia. It’s hardly a set it and forget it affair.

[2bluesc → xienze]

I ran my own mail server for years because I didn't trust Google with _all_ my data. Started colocated server for a while, then VPS, then cloud. Setting up an maintaining SPAM mechanisms on a low volume mail server is a nightmare.

Switched to Fastmail and haven't looked back. Their Android and Web client are great and they've opened their JMAP[0] interface.

[0] http://jmap.io/

[jacquesm → xienze]

> Just not sure why anyone would run an email server other than extreme paranoia.

Compliance.

NDA's.

[ryanlol → xienze]

Fastmail is great until their support hands your account over to some random person that just happened to ask.

[xienze → ryanlol]

https://www.fastmail.com/about/privacy.html

They have a very strong privacy policy, they’re not just going to hand your email over to a “random” person.

[skrause → xienze]

They already have: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15855081

[j_koreth → skrause]

https://blog.fastmail.com/2017/12/06/security-account-recove...

[CaptSpify → xienze]

How is it not set and forget?

I set up my configs ~5 years ago, and other than apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade, I havent had to do anything