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1133 points pattyj | 1 comments | 17 Sep 25 11:07 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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drnick1 ◴[17 Sep 25 20:49 UTC] No.45281245[source]▶
You couldn't pay me to go back to using anything made by Apple or Google. I use a GrapheneOS Pixel and my self-hosted "cloud" with Nextcloud, HomeAssitant, and my own email server and the control and performance are unrivaled by any of the Big Tech crapware. I could start self-hosting an AI chatbot I suppose, but these do not seem to have reached the point of enshiffication yet as relatively new services.
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jonahx ◴[17 Sep 25 21:40 UTC] No.45281711[source]▶
How do you deal with deliverability issues on the self hosted email server. I've always heard that's a hard or at least finicky problem.
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drnick1 ◴[17 Sep 25 22:27 UTC] No.45282173[source]▶
I think the deliverability issues boil down to i) IP, ii) domain age, iii) DKIM setup. The only one that is difficult to get around is i) I suppose; I am fortunate enough to have access to a clean IPv4 in a non-residential block. If you are facing deliverability issues, consider a relay service such as mailgun.

That being said, I mostly receive email, and the privacy benefits of running my own server would still be significant even without the ability to send email at all.

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jonahx ◴[17 Sep 25 23:15 UTC] No.45282589{3}[source]▶
Thanks for that answer.

Re: the privacy benefits, is it just that Google (or whoever) has no access to your mail, or is there another benefit? I'm not doubting, just trying to understand specifically what you protect against? And how much is the benefit diminished, if at all, if most of your correspondents are on a BigMailServer?

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1. drnick1 ◴[18 Sep 25 00:57 UTC] No.45283564{4}[source]▶
Google not having access to your email is a huge privacy benefit. Even with email becoming less important, most online services still rely on email for sign up and things such as password recovery. You probably also still receive email receipts for flights and online purchases. These are all data points that I would rather Google/Apple/Microsoft not have.

Besides privacy, running your own server means you can create as many mailboxes/aliases as you like. I give each website/company a distinct alias; this allows me to revoke an alias that becomes problematic, e.g. due to spam. There are no storage limits other than those dictated by your hardware, no maximum attachment size, etc. I am immune to "terms and conditions" changing overnight that suddenly shrink my storage or put features such as IMAP access behind a paywall.