• peveleigh@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I can’t quite pin down why exactly, but I’ve pivoted hard towards self-hosting these past few months. My biggest issue at the moment is finding a Gmail alternative.

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      @peveleigh @Doomguy I try to self-host as much as possible but with email I am willing to go with protonmail (and even pay for an upper tier). However I did learn how to set up my own email server on my raspberry pi using citadel which was pretty cool

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      My problem with self hosting something like email is that I’m used to not consistently having power/internet, in some cases (Ex:jellyfin) that’s not something I care about, but with an email server I worry about missing something becouse I lost connection for a few hours

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        My problem with self hosting something like email is that I’m used to not consistently having power/internet, in some cases (Ex:jellyfin) that’s not something I care about, but with an email server I worry about missing something becouse I lost connection for a few hours

        Email is extremely robust though, servers will try to connect later.

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      Proton mail is great, I use the paid tier and have multiple email addresses setup with different auto sorting folder rules. It’s nice to be able to have 10 different emails on one account if needed.

      Self hosting email is very painful to do for the reasons hybrid havoc explained in this thread.