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As the title reads, I really want to begin hosting my own email server again. I'm sick of the poor quality of the service providers out there. Damnit all I want/need is a reliable IMAP/SMTP provider. I spent 3 hours getting off of Hostinger and on to Zoho. I just hope Zoho won't suck. It's great for now but we'll see.

Is the prevailing advice still not to bother with self-hosting email?

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Is the prevailing advice still not to bother with self-hosting email?

From someone who never stopped: YES.

99.95% spam, and no amount of filters and training can do as good a job as Gmail (as much as I hate and would like to get away from Gmail)

I want to turn it off so bad, but fomo, that one email from that one person I knew 25 years ago who only has that email address ... fml.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mailcow includes rspamd which learns spam using bayes analysis. Just move messages to the junk folder and it learns, after a month or so of training I get very very little actual spam, and no false positives.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I also use mailcow with rspamd and I have seen like 2 spam mails in 3 years. And even those were marked as suspicious.

Combined with aliases I don't really have to bother with spam or leaked addresses anymore.

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