I speak from experience that no one other than professionals should be handling their own mail servers in 2024. I worked for a mail host. The amount of spam and attacks that befall a mail provider, even a small one, is bonkers. Plus, mail is just too damn important.

I wish it wasn’t the case because the idea of everyone privately hosting their own mail servers would be pretty awesome. Sadly the modern internet makes it way too risky.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago

Preach it

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

I'm also not sure where they got their idea that cloud is cheaper from. On prem has always been cheaper, I've had to walk through fire and flames to get my company to approve cloud hosting as we simply do not have the capacity to be our own mail host. Goodluck explaining tech debt to upper management though, it's like they're allergic to the idea of understanding it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

God if that isn't the truth. We changed from Thryv to rackspace and we went from zero spam to 30 a day and this is AFTER they block a bunch. Waste of my time every day having to go through them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Ya JWZ I think complained about this

Edit wait see this

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Do you have a link?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oh maybe conflated a post from someone else like “self hosting email just sucks, everything goes to spam, give up” with a JWZ repost of something different

Sorry to misremember, edited

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Thanks