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Re:Ask HN: My Microsoft account has been suspended by Micros... by bad_user on Friday July 27, 2018 @04:00PM (#17628840)
Tried hosting my email too. Not worth the hassle. Too much work to set it up, then to keep your domain or your IP out of blacklists, to take care of your reputation, etc.

You can host your own email just like you can generate your own electricity. It's definitely worth it for other people and we definitely need more people that self host to keep email an open standard, but personally I've got better things to do.

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Re:Ask HN: My Microsoft account has been suspended by Micros... by ryandrake on Friday July 27, 2018 @04:15PM (#17628960)
I agree that it’s hard. I justify the effort spent because my email access is essentially my single source of failure credential for the rest of my online life. Some things that are important are hard.
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