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Re:After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have... by IgorPartola on Sunday September 04, 2022 @04:59PM (#32717678)
Is there any actually money to be made in hosting email for people? I genuinely don’t know but my suspicion is that GMail, Yahoo, Outlook, et al are loss leaders for their owner companies. I suspect people at those companies would be quite happy if the protocol got unfucked enough that it small players could participate without negatively impacting the network.
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Re:After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have... by GekkePrutser on Sunday September 04, 2022 @06:15PM (#32718243)
O365 web costs me 5 bucks per month and I only use it for a few emails a week so I doubt it's a loss leader.

If I'd actually use all of it a lot, sure but I don't.

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Re:After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have... by IgorPartola on Sunday September 04, 2022 @08:52PM (#32719312)
Do you just get email with that? Or maybe is there an office suite also?
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Re:After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have... by GekkePrutser on Monday September 05, 2022 @06:19AM (#32722612)
There's an office suite included yes but only web based which really sucks. Half the office features are not supported.

It also doesn't work properly on Firefox on FreeBSD.

Even though on other OSes it works ok, it's so limited I can't imagine anyone using the web version of office 365 for any serious activity.

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Re:After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have... by IgorPartola on Monday September 05, 2022 @08:07AM (#32723355)
Far be it for me to tell people what setup they should use but it sure sounds like you are unhappy with the value you are getting for your money.
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Re:After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have... by GekkePrutser on Monday September 05, 2022 @11:22AM (#32725301)
I am. But services providing just email usually are about the same price.
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Re:After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have... by 0x445442 on Sunday September 04, 2022 @05:41PM (#32717964)
I gladly pay for Fastmail and I assume they’re not running a charity. Also, I think hey.com is charging $100 per year.
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Re:After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have... by IgorPartola on Sunday September 04, 2022 @08:52PM (#32719317)
I am not saying there aren’t paid options. But Fastmail isn’t who we are talking about being a bad actor here and is much smaller than GMail.
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Re:After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have... by 0x445442 on Monday September 05, 2022 @10:37AM (#32724786)
You asked it there is any money to be made in email, I provided you with anecdotal evidence that there was.
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