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Re:Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choic... by koolba on Friday December 24, 2021 @09:34AM (#29673888)
There’s a midpoint at #1.5 where you control the domain and rely on an external host, but also have a continuous archive of your historical mails on your own server. Otherwise with a standard IMAP setup, if your provider locks you out, you’re limited to only the most recent N messages on connected devices.
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Re:Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choic... by charwalker on Friday December 24, 2021 @01:34PM (#29676310)
Buy a domain for $20, get a GSuite account with it for $6 a month or similar, then archive all your mail via Outlook or your desktop email app of choice. You also get a lot of other tools and storage space for very low cost which I find useful.

It's still using Google but it allows plenty of control and management, and I can take my domain anywhere with minimal stress. It's a decent compromise.

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Re:Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choic... by bxparks on Friday December 24, 2021 @01:51PM (#29676518)
Just make sure that you use a different domain registrar than Google Domains, and make sure your admin email address is not gmail. Because if Google bans your account, you will be totally screwed.
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Re:Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choic... by iav on Friday December 24, 2021 @06:51PM (#29678940)
I used to do this but switched to iCloud Beta for custom domain this year. It’s $1/month (free with any paid iCloud plan) and integrates with iPhones/Mac, supports push email for iPhone, and is free of Google spying.
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Re:Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choic... by danlugo92 on Friday December 24, 2021 @02:07PM (#29676699)
> $6 a month

Zoho has a $1/yr plan.

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Re:Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choic... by indigodaddy on Friday December 24, 2021 @03:18PM (#29677333)
And Yandex has a $0/yr plan (unless they got rid of it and I’m just grandfathered, not sure..)
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Re:Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choic... by Zopieux on Friday December 24, 2021 @05:40PM (#29678464)
Can't find anything below ~1/month at zoho for just mails; care to share a link?
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Re:Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choic... by danlugo92 on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @11:57AM (#29811491)
Yeah it's $1 a month, got confused, still a good deal!
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Re:Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choic... by rattray on Friday December 24, 2021 @06:37PM (#29678849)
Is zoho email any good? I've never heard anything about it.
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