Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choice, not a practical one
I would really say that &quot;running your own email&quot; is a set of things that can be done independently:<p>- Getting your own domain and using a provider such as fastmail or proton is a first step that gives you lots of security fom arbitrary. Because you own the doorstep, you can change provider without having to inform all your contacts of the move. You&#x27;re also more secure from unilateral moves from your provider.<p>-Hosting your own mail server means that you are responsible for the persistence of your mail. It&#x27;s a nice artisanal thing to do, and you may be satisfied to know that no one is reading your mail.<p>-Sending your mail yourself is the real hard part, because you need a stable IP that is accepted as a legitimate mail sender. Moreover, you need to monitor this property in the long term. Every mail server has their own way to choose who is a legitimate mail sender, and it&#x27;s an ongoing pain to check that.<p>You&#x27;re not forced to go all the way, you can simply pick a domain to secure the frontdoor, or you can host your mail server without sending mail by yourself, etc. You can also self-host, and change your mind later without much impact.<p>I personally would incite everyone to do at least #1 for safety reasons, #2 if you want to fiddle with the system to know how it works, and to avoid #3.