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Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service (www.forbes.com)
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[–] 85 points 1 year ago (9 children)

If this works out it might be a nice place to migrate to away from my self-hosted e-mail provided they eventually let you bring your own domain. Just sucks that e-mail is essentially the most secure thing you need to have since compromising that can compromise every account attached to the e-mail. That’s a lot of trust you need to instill in your e-mail host.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    The spam filtering is painful. I kinda work around it by giving a unique e-mail for everything and of one starts getting spammed I just rid of that e-mail. Tends to give you advance warning of data breaches too since you’ll start seeing the spam come in before the announcement.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    You say you’re self hosting your email, how are you doing that?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I meant hosting wise, at home or using a VPS? How did you get a fixed IP/ what are you using for a proxy?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Whatever their doing, it’s not worth it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Eh it depends. I’m fortunate enough to be in a good IP block so I don’t get my e-mails dropped purely on that. It’s been a good learning experience and I’ve leaned on my own server a number of times for troubleshooting at work since I can see the whole mail flow. The only problem I have is the free Outlook/Hotmail will not accept my e-mails. Everybody else seems fine. All that said, I don’t host anybody else’s e-mail so I haven’t had any spam come out of my IP, and I would never in a million years host e-mail for a customer.

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