Self-hosted email is the hardest it's ever been, but also the easiest

Re:Self-hosted email is the hardest it's ever been, but also... by jjav on Monday September 05, 2022 @01:34AM (#32720910)

> But how much time do you spend dealing with that? Is it worth it?

I don't track the time but it's within a rounding error of no time at all.

I set up SPF for my domains when it became popular many years ago, took maybe a few hours.

Some years later I set up DKIM, that took a bit more time over a weekend. Some time later I set up DMARC as well.

I haven't had to make any changes since then, it's been at least four years. No problems of any kind. It's absolutely worth it to own my own email, no question.

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Re:Self-hosted email is the hardest it's ever been, but also... by cm2187 on Monday September 05, 2022 @04:12AM (#32721737)

Same, a bit of time invested upfront figuring out all the different tech: dkim, spf, failover smtp, letsecrypt certs (I am using IIS so not trivial plus you want to use those certs for smtp/imap too), log scanning and ip banning, etc.

But not accessible at all to non technical people.

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