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I know the adage that self-hosting email is hard. I use a third party smtp server to send emails for my Lemmy instance in order to guarantee delivery, for example.

However, other than potential uptime, what are the disadvantages to setting up self-hosted incoming email?

Incoming email is like 99% of my email usage. I'm happy to use a third party mail provider for outgoing email, but don't see why I shouldn't simply host incoming email myself.

Thank you <3

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[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 1 points 1 year ago

The main drawback is having your ip address bound to your domain, which with a whois can equal to your name and address

Maybe i'm just paranoid, spoiled by cloudflare protection

[-] Wander@yiffit.net 0 points 1 year ago

I read that cloudflare now allows you to proxy email as well.

[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 1 points 1 year ago

it's a redirect, and imho doesn't work very well, at least when i tried i got too many bounces

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