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submitted 20 hours 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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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 6 points 20 hours ago

I have hosted my own email before. It can get a bit annoying and it's not the most reliable.

I definitely recommend at least starting with your own domain. That way you can move emails easily. It's relatively straightforward, although if you have it on a gmail account you need to disable 2fa for some reason...