There&#x27;s a lot of things that I question about Google, but forcing their Gmail customers to adopt more secure practices is worthy of praise. They are the biggest free email provider in the world, and they are owning up to a responsibility to ensure their users can work safely.<p>Those running their own email servers have a similiar responsibility to their own users, even if it&#x27;s only themselves. You had time to set up the server in the first place, so you have time to make it work with TLS. Now that Let&#x27;s Encrypt is here there&#x27;s no excuse to be running an insecure email (or web) server.