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Re:Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choic... by judge2020 on Friday December 24, 2021 @10:21AM (#29674275)
> other mail servers on the internet can catch your mails in flight

This also shouldn't be a problem most of the time if your email server supports TLS; Google currently sees 81% outbound email encryption[0], so you can imagine roughly 4/5ths of email servers support it.

0: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safer-email/overview?h...

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Re:Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choic... by 3np on Friday December 24, 2021 @10:24AM (#29674309)
Indeed. It was more of an inb4 of the common reply of “there is 0 privacy gains of self-hosting email since most of the people you’re mailing with will be on one of the big providers anyway”, which is tired and defeatist.
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Re:Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choic... by Talanes on Friday December 24, 2021 @06:12PM (#29678693)
Tired, defeatist, and giving way too much credit to the big guys. No matter how good they are at assembling a profile on me from indirect data, it's still going to be more effort and likely lower quality than if they had a giant store of data labelled as mine.
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