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If you selfhost the email on your own hardware, then the IP will be apparent to anyone. If you selfhost it on somebody else's hardware, they can be legally compelled to log your IP as happened here with proton. But if you aren't committing any crimes, selfhosting either way is probably more private than proton, since you are more confident in what software is running, while with proton you have to trust that the frontend being served is actually the e2e encrypted one