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this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2024
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Run your own goddamn email server. Don't trust these big fat companies.
I would advise against this.
I am all about running things yourself, run most stuff myself, but email is just a nightmare these days with all the anti-spam stuff out there.
Go ask at !selfhosted@lemmy.world. They'll tell you the same thing. Lots of hassle, lots of potential pitfalls.
Thanks. Like the sentiment. Yes I can do this but my wife cannot. So this option is out. It needs to be a solution that she can maintain alone if something happens to me. This concern gets a lot more real as one gets older.
Email in itself is an outdated protocol. Even if you're selfhosting it, and have the best opsec practices; if the other person uses gmail then you're fucked anyway.
Not having mandatory security is a legit issue, but there isn't a drop-in replacement that does, not in 2024. You're gonna need widespread support, support for file transfer, federated operation, resistance to abuse, client software on many platforms, etc.
And email security is way down the list of things that I'd be concerned about. At least with email, you've got PGP-based security. If you're worried about other people's mail providers attacking mail you send them, that's getting into "do you trust certificate authorities to grant certificates" territory, because most secure protocols are dependent upon trusting that.
Like, XMPP with OTR is maybe a real option for messaging, but that's not email.
EDIT: Not to mention that XMPP doesn't mandate security either.
Security is getting better on the transport side.
@Estebiu
Then again, it's useful to filter out the gmail zombies.