i think it's time to dispel the myth that #selfhosting #email is hard if a dumdum like me can set up https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver in a USD12/mo linode box (which also hosts my websites, so that's not USD12 for mail alone) in like 15 minutes
the hardest part is just getting the DNS DKIM, DMARC and SPF values right
@apex and that's a valid concern! but it's by no means "difficult" for anyone already versed in self-hosting to spin up a mail server. i would absolutely have qualms about my own ability to keep a 99.9% uptime too
@mavica_again I've been hosting my company mail for more than ten years now, and to me, the biggest challenge is the constant arms race with spammers and bots bombarding the server. Things have gotten noticeably more intense lately, and apparently, most of the attacks are from the US. Do Americans have some kind of tradition selling potentially harmful stuff to the criminals?
@mavica_again for me the scary part is this: what if your server goes down while you're very busy at work or worse if you're on vacation and you can't receive your boarding pass because you can't access your email?