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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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