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E-Mail with own domain (programming.dev)
submitted 4 days ago by Gobbel2000@programming.dev to c/selfhosting@slrpnk.net
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I was thinking about how to improve my email situation, because at the moment I am using an address of a commercial mail provider, which obviously brings some concerns of lock-in.

While fully self-hosting the email is an option, I am a bit wary of this, because having a working email is very critical and I do trust the commercial providers to give better uptime and reliability than my old server in the closet. Does anyone have experience hosting an email service and what is it like/could you recommend it?

The other option that I am more inclined to is having the email hosted by some cloud provider, but using an address under my personal domain name. The point would be of course that I could change the email provider while keeping the address. Which providers supporting this could you recommend? What is the process like linking a domain to an email host?

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[-] berber@feddit.org 1 points 7 hours ago

so in both cases, proton and mailbox, you have "less" snoopability, in the sense that they wouldn't be able to snoop your stored mail retroactively. i am (in some sense naively) assuming "good" conditions here, such as that they don't keep copies somewhere.

of course without actual e2ee there is always a way for a provider to snoop any incoming email if they wanted to.

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