On 20/09/17 13:08, Criggie wrote:
(Steven Sykes)
2. Re: Time to change email (Volker Kuhlmann)
From: Steven Sykes <[email protected]>
On 19/09/17 19:15, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
While I've been popping email for the last 19 years and therefore not
leaving stuff on an email server somewhere, I might as well make life
easier on myself and use IMAP. That introduces a second requirement of
having a provider that doesn't hand over all my stuff from their servers
because they do not defend users.
POP3 needs to die. Let it go. There is no setup where pop3 is the correct
answer, unless a component dates from 10+ years ago in which case the
question becomes one of upgrades.
Why have an email provider at all? Host your own mailserver and keep it
in-house or at least totally under your control. A hosted VM somewhere
would be awesome and if it fails you have noone to blame but yourself.
I only stayed with POP3 because Vodafone didn't have an IMAP alternative
(at least would tell me about), and I quite liked the idea of keeping my
email address that I've had for nearly two decades. Now that's been
forced upon me I've no say.
All the reasons you list to host ones own mail server are reasons for me
personally not to have my own mail server. There's the financial cost
(where as using Posteo is costing me 12EUR annually at the moment), and
time. Sure it would be a fun project, but I've bigger projects on at the
moment.
At LCA2015, someone had a project that was meant to address this sort of
thing, effectively a home email appliance, all FOSS of course. I
remember his face but not his name...
Cheers,
Steven
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