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  • 3K333K33 Member, Host Rep

    @COLBYLICIOUS said:

    @3K33 said:

    @Levi said:
    Guys, self-hosting email is just not worth the risk. Please, if you have spotted good alternative: share it.

    I'am working as email admin in very large ISP. Doing that only 12 years, but I can say that it is insanely hard to properly manage email server (and all chain of it). If you can successfully, stress-free manage it your-self - hat off, you are true postmaster.

    We do that and have absolutely no issues at the moment, but we will see once something happens.

    Personal stuff runs on Tutanota, imo better Proton.

    What stack do you use?

    Mailcow, the best thing I have ever used.

  • rcy026rcy026 Member

    @Levi said:
    I'am working as email admin in very large ISP. Doing that only 12 years, but I can say that it is insanely hard to properly manage email server (and all chain of it). If you can successfully, stress-free manage it your-self - hat off, you are true postmaster.

    I have to agree here. I was among the first to run qmail on Solaris commercially in the 90's and have been working with email ever since in one form or another so I do have some experience, and I would say that there is no valid reason to selfhost email today. If you want to do it to play and learn, fine, by all means, but it will never be reliable and should not be used for anything important. It's sad and I hate it, but that is the reality we have to deal with today due to the abuse of email.

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  • minioptminiopt Member

    @3K33 said:

    @Levi said:
    Guys, self-hosting email is just not worth the risk. Please, if you have spotted good alternative: share it.

    I'am working as email admin in very large ISP. Doing that only 12 years, but I can say that it is insanely hard to properly manage email server (and all chain of it). If you can successfully, stress-free manage it your-self - hat off, you are true postmaster.

    We do that and have absolutely no issues at the moment, but we will see once something happens.

    Personal stuff runs on Tutanota, imo better Proton.

    My issue with Tutanota is that they don't have an intermediary plan between "Revolutionary" (20 GB storage, 3 domains, 3 EUR/mo) and "Legend" (500 GB storage, 10 domains, 8 EUR/mo). If they had something like 100 GB storage with 5 domains for 5 EUR/mo that would fit my needs better but alas.

  • whynotlearnwhynotlearn Member
    edited April 8

    @miniopt said: My issue with Tutanota is that they don't have an intermediary plan between "Revolutionary" (20 GB storage, 3 domains, 3 EUR/mo) and "Legend" (500 GB storage, 10 domains, 8 EUR/mo). If they had something like 100 GB storage with 5 domains for 5 EUR/mo that would fit my needs better but alas.

    I don't know I am seeing right now some birthday deal or something and seeing the 8 euro plan at 3 euro personally.

  • minioptminiopt Member

    @whynotlearn said:

    @miniopt said: My issue with Tutanota is that they don't have an intermediary plan between "Revolutionary" (20 GB storage, 3 domains, 3 EUR/mo) and "Legend" (500 GB storage, 10 domains, 8 EUR/mo). If they had something like 100 GB storage with 5 domains for 5 EUR/mo that would fit my needs better but alas.

    I don't know I am seeing right now some birthday deal or something and seeing the 8 euro plan at 3 euro personally.

    It's only for the first year, not recurring.

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  • @miniopt said: It's only for the first year, not recurring.

    Ah gotcha, a little sneaky from tuta but yea. I wish more people come up in the market with cheaper alternatives for more healthy competition.

  • 3K333K33 Member, Host Rep
    edited April 8

    @miniopt said:

    @3K33 said:

    @Levi said:
    Guys, self-hosting email is just not worth the risk. Please, if you have spotted good alternative: share it.

    I'am working as email admin in very large ISP. Doing that only 12 years, but I can say that it is insanely hard to properly manage email server (and all chain of it). If you can successfully, stress-free manage it your-self - hat off, you are true postmaster.

    We do that and have absolutely no issues at the moment, but we will see once something happens.

    Personal stuff runs on Tutanota, imo better Proton.

    My issue with Tutanota is that they don't have an intermediary plan between "Revolutionary" (20 GB storage, 3 domains, 3 EUR/mo) and "Legend" (500 GB storage, 10 domains, 8 EUR/mo). If they had something like 100 GB storage with 5 domains for 5 EUR/mo that would fit my needs better but alas.

    I have to agree, I currently have 2 accounts with them on legacy plans, still cheaper by 12 euros to keep them instead of buying Revolutionary Plan. Ahhh and to import emails i would have to get Legend one...

    If I remember correctly, it was possible to purchase additional domains before the changes.

    Edit: And I don't like the fact they don't have something like Proton Bridge to use emails on other email clients. I read that API is so hard to understand that no one even tried on creating unofficial copy.

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  • NyrNyr Community Contributor, Veteran

    @whynotlearn said:

    @Nyr said:

    @JohnFilch123 said:
    Swiss jurisdiction being a privacy friendly place is an old myth.

    Just like Germany. Actually both of them are some of the worst regarding internet surveillance.

    how so? They are creating an right to encryption iirc, and what are your thoughts on netherlands?

    Intelligence services there have very wide powers and technical ability to intercept all internet traffic, and have had them for a very long time.

    The Netherlands is more of the same. Mass state level surveillance is the norm in the developed world.

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  • @Nyr said: Mass state level surveillance is the norm in the developed world

    Okay, so what about developing countries?

  • NyrNyr Community Contributor, Veteran

    @whynotlearn said:

    @Nyr said: Mass state level surveillance is the norm in the developed world

    Okay, so what about developing countries?

    They are connected to developed countries via international cables which are also very surveilled.

  • rpqurpqu Member

    @whynotlearn said:

    @Nyr said: Mass state level surveillance is the norm in the developed world

    Okay, so what about developing countries?

    No difference, there's global agenda, borderless lobbying, etc

  • Lol okay, so I am just gonna go into my wooden hut in wilderness again and have only a printer connected and have a gun surrounding it so that if it starts making random noise, I shoot it.

    There is no "best thing ever" but there are always compromises but still I mean, Nyr, you have basically blacklisted all countries from your list :neutral:

    What mail provider are you using yourself mate?

    Where is the person who had an antarctica vps and was named sunny, This is their moment to shine and tell the world about deep underwater email provider. /jk

    Tbh I guess we need better protocols than E-mail. Email as a protocol is also really not privacy friendly for the most part sigh.

  • @whynotlearn said:
    Lol okay, so I am just gonna go into my wooden hut in wilderness again and have only a printer connected and have a gun surrounding it so that if it starts making random noise, I shoot it.

    There is no "best thing ever" but there are always compromises but still I mean, Nyr, you have basically blacklisted all countries from your list :neutral:

    What mail provider are you using yourself mate?

    Where is the person who had an antarctica vps and was named sunny, This is their moment to shine and tell the world about deep underwater email provider. /jk

    Tbh I guess we need better protocols than E-mail. Email as a protocol is also really not privacy friendly for the most part sigh.

    Google.

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  • whynotlearnwhynotlearn Member
    edited April 8

    South park writers need to see this xD, this was fun discussion tbh.

  • NyrNyr Community Contributor, Veteran

    @whynotlearn said:

    South park writers need to see this.

    Uh? I care about reliability and UX, not surveillance.

    For private communications what matters is the tool (end to end encryption) not the jurisdiction of a server.

  • @Nyr said: For private communications what matters is the tool (end to end encryption) not the jurisdiction of a server.

    I agree, E-mail as a protocol is fundamentally unencrypted/requires too much trust. I hope as society we move towards better protocol but Email is currently the most ubiquitous protocol and there are still some Emails that are really privacy/surveillance sensitive (Not just from national surveillance companies but for companies like google, they might as well sell some data to these ad brokers)

    So I think that its still worth having a discussion over again rather than just saying that everything surveils. Atleast that's my opinion but long term we should try to migrate over Email

  • @truemagic said:
    Infomaniak — if you have a domain there, and you can add unlimited domain aliases and have unlimited email storage.

    better not.
    didn't they have a similar scandal to the one currently unfolding at MXRoute?

  • @Andreix said: Opel Astra G from '99

    ...was damn solid. used one. 340.000km!

    Thanked by 2whynotlearn Andreix
  • @Nyr said: Fastmail is very good and very reliable.

    ... expensive
    ... and becomes more and more shitty within the last 5 years.

  • NyrNyr Community Contributor, Veteran

    @hyperblast said:

    @Nyr said: Fastmail is very good and very reliable.


    ... and becomes more and more shitty within the last 5 years.

    How so? Interested because I have not used it recently.

    I agree it is not cheap, but comparable alternatives are not cheaper either.

  • @Nyr said:

    @hyperblast said:

    @Nyr said: Fastmail is very good and very reliable.


    ... and becomes more and more shitty within the last 5 years.

    How so? Interested because I have not used it recently.

    I agree it is not cheap, but comparable alternatives are not cheaper either.

    used fm for 20years.
    i ended up canceling my subscription at the end of 2024 because it kept getting more expensive and, in my opinion, was becoming more about design and less about the technical aspects.

  • NyrNyr Community Contributor, Veteran
    edited April 8

    @hyperblast said: used fm for 20years.
    i ended up canceling my subscription at the end of 2024 because it kept getting more expensive and, in my opinion, was becoming more about design and less about the technical aspects.

    What are you using now?

  • hyperblasthyperblast Member
    edited April 8

    @Nyr said: What are you using now?

    1. all-inkl.com (for everything that really matters and has to run!)
    2. namecrane
    3. mxroute (to be honest, though, what’s been written gives me a queasy feeling in my stomach.)
    4. hostbrr (cpanel hostingpackage - damn rock solid)

    not cheap either but maybe worth a look: https://www.migadu.com/

    (https://www.emaildiscussions.com/showthread.php?t=81436)

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  • @hyperblast said:

    @Nyr said: What are you using now?

    1. all-inkl.com (for everything that really matters and has to run!)
    2. namecrane
    3. mxroute (to be honest, though, what’s been written gives me a queasy feeling in my stomach.)
    4. hostbrr (cpanel hostingpackage - damn rock solid)

    not cheap either but maybe worth a look: https://www.migadu.com/

    does hostbrr have their own ip's or do they use hetzner's ip?

  • emghemgh Member, Megathread Squad

    OVH has cheap email, €0.30 ex. VAT/month/account

    Never used myself but I put a friend on there, he didn't complain thus far

    https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/emails/

  • @whynotlearn said:

    @hyperblast said:

    @Nyr said: What are you using now?

    1. all-inkl.com (for everything that really matters and has to run!)
    2. namecrane
    3. mxroute (to be honest, though, what’s been written gives me a queasy feeling in my stomach.)
    4. hostbrr (cpanel hostingpackage - damn rock solid)

    not cheap either but maybe worth a look: https://www.migadu.com/

    does hostbrr have their own ip's or do they use hetzner's ip?

    @labze
    but i guess hetzner ips.

    did a update in my post above ;) @whynotlearn

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  • NyrNyr Community Contributor, Veteran

    @emgh said: OVH has cheap email, €0.30 ex. VAT/month/account

    Never used myself but I put a friend on there, he didn't complain thus far

    https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/emails/

    Zimbra... that's a name I haven't heard in some years.

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  • blip1945blip1945 Member

    @emgh said:
    Never used myself but I put a friend on there, he didn't complain thus far

    https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/emails/

    Thas either for eu citizen only, or for eu ovh account only. Ovh panel/account situation are a huge mess, always has been. Plus i think they don't support catchall, or at least i haven't found ways to enable catchall on my account. Not sure about their reliability, might be fine or might be not but i'd avoid ovh solely because their horrible panel.

  • emghemgh Member, Megathread Squad

    @Nyr said:

    @emgh said: OVH has cheap email, €0.30 ex. VAT/month/account

    Never used myself but I put a friend on there, he didn't complain thus far

    https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/emails/

    Zimbra... that's a name I haven't heard in some years.

    I migrated his email and checked it out, it looked decent tbh

  • emghemgh Member, Megathread Squad
    edited April 8

    @blip1945 said:

    @emgh said:
    Never used myself but I put a friend on there, he didn't complain thus far

    https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/emails/

    Thas either for eu citizen only, or for eu ovh account only. Ovh panel/account situation are a huge mess, always has been. Plus i think they don't support catchall, or at least i haven't found ways to enable catchall on my account. Not sure about their reliability, might be fine or might be not but i'd avoid ovh solely because their horrible panel.

    Yeah I doubt catchall is supported since you pay per account

    edit: actually might be EU only

    And yes the panel is shitty, the friend I migrated didn't get to experience this though because I just signed him up and used his card :D

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