I have been a GMail user since the beginning... I sometimes brag that I have a "Second-Tier-Invite GMail account," cuz I got my invite from someone who got their invite directly from a Google employee... One could call me a fanboy. Of course, in those days, we knew damn well that webmail was expensive, and that we were paying for it with our data, and I'm not sure how any of that comes as a surprise to anyone now... Or how it's a bad thing; Aren't targeted ads a GOOD thing?
I am also grandfathered into a free Google Suite account... Of course, it doesn't have ALL the features of even the cheapest paid accounts... And I might be tempted to start paying the $6 a month eventually to get some of the domain management features I'm missing. At that juncture, I will become annoyed that I'm paying with my data AND $6... But my very biggest annoyance with gmail, and it's so annoying to me that it makes all of the aforementioned completely irrelevant to me until it's fixed, is the fact that we can't merge our accounts together; Sure, you can add aliases to Google Suite accounts all day... No limits. But can you permanently merge two gmail accounts into the same account? Or permanently alias a Gmail account into a GSuite account? Or... OK, I'll give you that those were slightly niche-y ideas, so how about merely changing your Gmail address name from a maiden name to a married name? Approximately half the population will change their names in their lifetime, and using the [email protected] format leads to... Messes. Is all of that enough to justify me running my own email server? So far, no... And I'm not sure how that would even help - My whole household is Google users, none of us are abandoning our Gmails. On the other hand, both my wife and I are running around with pre- and post-married-life GMail accounts, neither of which can ever TRULY be abandoned for OAuth reasons, and that can't be Good for Google... Look at me: Worried about what's "Good" and "Bad" for Google... :P On Sun, Sep 20, 2020, 15:54 Bill Barry <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 5:31 PM Rich Shepard <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > On Sun, 20 Sep 2020, Eric House wrote: > > > > > And so the question: what are those of you who have the expertise to > run > > > an email server doing? Do you handle your own mail, or do you pay a > > > service to do it for you? If the former, what are the leading choices > on a > > > Debian server? If the latter, services to be recommended? > > > > Eric, > > > > I don't know how you connect to the 'Net; that might affect your > decision. > > I, too, started with Aracnet and stayed with SpiritOne until it was > > unceremoniously destroyed. Now I have ZiplyFiber (a rather ugly name in > my > > opinion and the third iteration of Verizon -> Frontier Comm -> > ZiplyFiber). > > > > Anywho, I've been running postfix here since 1997 with all these guys. It > > supports both my business and personal domain email accounts (my business > > web site is hosted at nearlyfreespeech.net, but they don't support > e-mail). > > I've had no issues with it and I keep it upgraded as Wietse releases bug > > fixes and the occasional new feature. > > > > I'm a happy camper running my own MTA because I control the filters that > > reject most of the crap. > > > > HTH, > > > > Rich > > > > > Does running your own email server completely stop Google from > scraping your email? Your email is received by people that might be > using Gmail. The $6 per month is annoying though. > > Bill > _______________________________________________ > PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
