This blog post is getting quite a bit of attention at the moment: https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-twenty-three-years-i-have-thrown-in-the-towel-the-oligopoly-has-won.html
I’d like to highlight this comment on HN:
I agree with the pains, but the options are not juts Big Tech or self-hosting. There’s a myriad of not-big-tech email providers out there, for example there’s Posteo, who use open source software and green energy. They are going strong for 13 years now with 400+k accounts.
Please consider this option if you’re fed up with self-hosting e-mail. We need a diverse ecosystem.
@abucci@anthony.buc.ci @movq@www.uninformativ.de well, RIP for him. Putting that aside, i’ven’t been having issues with my self-hosted email either, I’d like to straight up block Outlook though ;P
@prologic@twtxt.net fortunately that’s not the case for me, hell, they don’t even know about my dark side (to be concrete, this one) so….
Well, I wouldn’t say it’s black and white. There are delivery issues sometimes, it’s just part of the game – so it doesn’t always work. On the other hand, it’s not completely broken, either, is it?
What saddens me is people giving up. Everyone who claims “e-mail is broken” or “self-hosting is broken” makes life harder for the rest of us. 😐 Newcomers will read those blog posts and they’ll decide to not even try …
There was a follow-up blog post by someone else who brought up another important argument: “it’s never been easier to self-host your email” because the software has gotten so much better. Anyone remember setting up sendmail? 🤣 I haven’t even tried the alternatives mentioned in that post, because I use OpenBSD’s smtpd these days and I love it. 👌
@movq@www.uninformativ.de all hail opensmtpd