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submitted 3 days ago by Gobbel2000@programming.dev to c/selfhosting@slrpnk.net

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I was thinking about how to improve my email situation, because at the moment I am using an address of a commercial mail provider, which obviously brings some concerns of lock-in.

While fully self-hosting the email is an option, I am a bit wary of this, because having a working email is very critical and I do trust the commercial providers to give better uptime and reliability than my old server in the closet. Does anyone have experience hosting an email service and what is it like/could you recommend it?

The other option that I am more inclined to is having the email hosted by some cloud provider, but using an address under my personal domain name. The point would be of course that I could change the email provider while keeping the address. Which providers supporting this could you recommend? What is the process like linking a domain to an email host?

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[–] activistPnk@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

side note: downside is, your data there is more snoopable, less so with something like proton.

Can you elaborate? AFAIK, Protonmail only gives e2ee in 2 rare situations:

Both parties use PM
The non-PM user has a PGP key and the PM user is competent enough to add the key to their PM address book. (This is where Hushmail is superior to PM, but HM is not gratis)

In all other scenarios (no e2ee), PM traffic and data-at-rest is just as exposed as conventional non-PM.

[–] berber@feddit.org 1 points 13 hours ago

actually, i was talking out of my ass a little. i am not sure itself how things work, i was under the impression that proton can't access your clear text mails, once they are stored (of course, they can build backdoors that snoop when receiving mails, but we shall not assume this), similar to how mailbox.org allows you to have all incoming mails be immediately encrypted via your chosen pgp key, effectively having e2ee. i was under the impression proton did this automatically and stuff, i mean why else do you need to use their own apps for everything and to even use basic stuff like imap? but yeah i don't know their setup exactly.