Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choice, not a practical one
The comments all seem to be from people who think making an artisanal choice is a bad thing. There should be more art, experimentation, and expression in computing. If we&#x27;ve outgrown running our own mail servers as a practical choice, because there are now more good options, and we can enjoy running a mail server as a more humanly choice, that&#x27;s a good thing.<p>Not much has actually changed about the complexity of running a mail server in the last 20 years --- if anything it&#x27;s gotten easier. What&#x27;s changed is there are other, polished, turn-key options now. Great. (Those options tend to have spam policies that aren&#x27;t friendly to the independent servers, but that&#x27;s life.)<p>Choose to be artisanal.<p>(I&#x27;m the primary maintainer of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mailinabox.email&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mailinabox.email&#x2F;</a>.)