I too have my own email server for some years now (7 maybe?). Only had problems when I mis-configured it.<p>I&#x27;m frightened as well that google is taking over email. As long as people rely on web based email, there&#x27;s no hope for actually encrypting email. TLS is nice, but really, it doesn&#x27;t mean much. Your email is stored plain text on Google&#x27;s servers anyways.