Hi,
The last google product that is use is gmail, and while searching for a solid alternative, many threads mentionned self hosting, which has been on my mind for a little while but here is what’s stopping me so far: 1/ it sounds like a single point vulnerability 2/ I lack the skills.
As for #2, I’ve been down the privacy rabbithole for a couple years now, I know there are a lot of resources out there and I’m not afraid to learn, I just don’t know where to start.
But I don’t see the point in learning if in the end, I just build a server that could die in a domestic accident, resulting in me loosing a lot of important data.
Any help or advice is greatly appreciated,
for e-mail specifically i’d recommend not self hosting, specially if you have never self hosted before. one thing is to self host a server that only you have access and that it doesn’t need to do calls to other servers, or only minimal ones, with email is just more complicated. self host everything else, use protonmail/tutanota or something else for email.
Oh cmon. It’s not for the faint of heart, I agree, but it’s a learnable skill and totally can be done.
sure, but i wouldn’t tell someone who has never touched docker to start their self hosted journey with email. my personal opinion, maybe i’m a noob.
I started my self hosting journey with email, but I did it in 1993 when things were much simpler. IMO, email self-hosting isn’t worth it today (and if you do it, definitely set up a VPS as a relay and don’t try to MX directly from a consumer IP).