Ask HN: The middle ground for email self-hosting?

Re:Ask HN: The middle ground for email self-hosting? by laurent123456 on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @05:36AM (#31246373)

Since he uses his own domain, he can move elsewhere if there's a problem with Google. I do that too, and it's indeed much simpler than self-hosting.

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Re:Ask HN: The middle ground for email self-hosting? by hedora on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @11:21AM (#31249415)

On that note, I have amazon manage my custom domain.

Now I'm terrified that I'll return one too many pairs of socks or something, and get the retail consumer part of my account banned (we buy a lot of stuff on Amazon).

Does anyone have experience with what happens to AWS resources (specifically, domains) when that happens?

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Re:Ask HN: The middle ground for email self-hosting? by nottorp on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @06:17AM (#31246588)

It sounded like he's actually keeping the emails on google, even though they come on a custom domain. And that doesn't seem safe to me.

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Re:Ask HN: The middle ground for email self-hosting? by dmje on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @12:46PM (#31250458)

I use a client, so have a local IMAP backup, and regularly back this up to my NAS.

That's not really my worry, though. What scares me about being heavily invested in [email protected] or [email protected] is lockout from services. As long as I have my own domain then I can just switch out the DNS and I'll still be able to get into whatever web service I signed up to using my email address.

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Re:Ask HN: The middle ground for email self-hosting? by laurent123456 on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @08:04AM (#31247279)

For backup he could get Thunderbird or similar to fetch the emails are regular interval. I think it's generally a good idea to do so.

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