From its start, Gmail conditioned us to trade privacy for free services
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If Gmail proved anything, it was that people would, for the most part, accept any terms of service. Or at least not care enough to read the fine-print closely.
  • SanicHegehog@lemm.eeEnglish
    20·
    1 year ago

    Chiming in to say that hosting your own email server is a nightmare, please just find a service and pay them.

    • hauiOPMAEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I heard that. Its why I asked. Self hosting is no problem for me, more like finding good alternatives in this case. Have you tried it?

      • morrowind@lemmy.mlEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        I think you tend to get flagged as spam from Gmail and the like very easily, making useless

        • hauiOPMAEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Thats what I heard as well. Thanks for chiming in.

        • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          True. It’s basically impossible to fully self host nowadays. You can host for your local users and use a/your provider to route and possibly act as your MX if you really want to go that way. In that case most hosting providers that let you edit the DNS files will do.

      • SanicHegehog@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I have. My main problem wasn’t so much that I was getting flagged as spam, but that the spam filtering on the receiving side was just awful. I also don’t send many emails so it may well be the case that I just happened to not experience that problem.

        • hauiOPMAEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Understood! Thanks for sharing.