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What service one should NOT self host (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Like the title says, I'm new to self hosting world. 😀 while I was researching, I found out that many people dissuaded me to self host email server. Just too complicated and hard to manage. What other services that you think we should just go use the currently available providers in the market and why? 🙂thank you

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Okay I understand that email hosting is bad for SENDING email , but what about only RECEIVING email , isn’t it a good idea to keep my stuff private ? I rarely send personal emails, and like to avoid my data being used for marketing purposes Is that bad to have smtp imap open on dynamic ip address ? Just asking your opinion

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Antispam is hell, just saying

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Antispam is easy with a mix of greylisting and spamassassin

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