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As the title reads, I really want to begin hosting my own email server again. I'm sick of the poor quality of the service providers out there. Damnit all I want/need is a reliable IMAP/SMTP provider. I spent 3 hours getting off of Hostinger and on to Zoho. I just hope Zoho won't suck. It's great for now but we'll see.

Is the prevailing advice still not to bother with self-hosting email?

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[–] Im1Random 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is the prevailing advice still not to bother with self-hosting email?

I am hosting my own mail server for almost a year now and never had any issues with it. So I would recommend hosting one if you're really into admin and server stuff since many things are quite complex to setup and maintain securely. For outgoing emails I would recommend using smtp2go or Mailgun to make sure that your emails always get delivered and don't go to spam. Sending emails without a relay can be quite difficult and unreliable with some providers.