No, e-mail was not originally designed for you to host it yourself. E-mail was designed for a system operator to maintain a server for many other users.<p>Aside from the many maintenance problems of hosting e-mail yourself, the biggest problem here is the distance: Iceland is far away from the user in the USA. Latency doesn&#x27;t matter so much for e-mail, but connectivity does, and if there&#x27;s a problem with a transatlantic link (which does happen on occasion) there goes your most important communications medium.<p>Finally, the biggest fallacy with e-mail is that it is ever secure. It&#x27;s never secure. The mail on your client devices is unencrypted, and if you ever reply, forward, or send an e-mail to anyone it&#x27;s very likely for the whole thread go over an unencrypted relay and be stored temporarily, not to mention the logs, and the unencrypted storage on the destination, etc.<p>Your physical mail isn&#x27;t secure in the postal service, and neither is your virtual mail in the e-mail service.