“…how much of a hassle maintaining an email server is…”
I would disagree here - I’ve been running my own Postfix + Dovecot
server for over 9 years with very little maintenance or headache. I
will concede a small bit of an initial learning curve but that exists
with any tech so I chalk that up to education. Once I got it up and
running, maintenance has been minimal as it pretty much just runs…
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On 20 May 2022, at 11:27, Sam Birch wrote:
On 20 May 2022, at 2:16, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
In that blog post I write: “If the provider stops supporting other
authentication schemes (which is almost true for Google) then the
provider has the power to decide which email clients are allowed to
access Gmail.”
I’d like to remind folks that there are several other top-tier email
service providers that have less motivation for user lock-in. They
generally charge a few dollars a month, which IMO is a bargain given
how much of a hassle maintaining an email server is. And it’s nice
to be the customer rather than the product being sold once in a while.
My personal favorite is Fastmail. They use app passwords for third
party clients rather than OAuth.
Cheers,
-sam
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