[1] - http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/03/26/andrew_we...
Other than that, there's the thing that I need to trust my VM provider, but that much easier than trusting a data mining conglomerate with your private conversations.
In the end, self hosting an email server isn't that big of a deal to set up and maintain.
I've even seen Gmail mark its own address confirmation mails as spam, along with many mails from people I frequently converse with.
Here is one with virtual domains, etc. might be overkill for your usecase though.
http://workaround.org/ispmail/squeeze
I personally run a stack over courier and some other hacks ontop of rdeliver, which works really nicely.
Important: Please always make sure to check that you don't run an open relay.
The risk of losing access to my gmail account without any possible recourse is just too big. I'm not afraid of being hacked, but much more so of being wrongly identified as a spammer or whatever else gets you banned from google these days.
I'm using addresses at my own domain as my primary address and I'll have my mail server just forward all mail to google. If I ever lose that google account, I can quickly change the alias and I can continue to receive mail without anybody else having to change anything.
By the way - doing something like this is really, really easy - all of you guys with various VPS and/or EC2 accounts, install an MTA software and add your alias to /etc/aliases. This works out-of-the box with any MTA package out there.
I prefer this over hosting my own mailbox or over any other mail provider because of the (still) unique user interface of gmail. I love the way how archiving mail works and the speed of the web based mail client. After trying to find good mail clients for years and years, gmail is the one that provides the (for me) best user experience. And I'm really, really picky about my mail client choices.
Once you've done so, it no longer matters which email service you are using. If the service ever decided to shut down or shut you off, you can just switch to another service without ever worrying about losing contact.
[1]: https://www.icann.org/en/help/dispute-resolution#unauthorize...
There doesn't appear to be an easy way to export all of that stuff. I'd really like a way to export all my logins and passwords to a CSV file. Yes, I'm aware just how risky storing that file is - I can encrypt it and store it on a USB stick; print it out and keep it in my 'read on death' file with my will; etc.
What about the interface(webmail I mean)? Wasn't very encouraging at I had tried their service some time back.
You can setup your own domain with Fastmail with the $39.95/yr plan.
Free, too, from before they cancelled their free plans.
I want to use Gandi email hosting as I've used them before and they seem pretty reliable - however to do that I'd need to transfer my domain from 123-reg and because it's a Spanish domain, it's a bit more difficult. I'd use 123-reg's email but I don't really trust them.
If anyone knows any good email hosting providers, please reply with recommendations.
Just because my hosting providers ATMail Open service blows, ridiculously difficult to use on iOS, and a hell to setup in a mail client.
Then untick 'Treat as an alias'. I remember having the same issue with 'via ...' and I think doing this did the trick.
Webfaction is technically shared hosting, but it's shared hosting unlike anything I've seen elsewhere. I can write my own procmail recipes, set up custom php.ini files for each app I host, and I have SSH access. You could probably install Pine or Mutt id you wanted to.
My reasons for using my own domain are simple:
* I want to be able to switch whenever I want, without having to email everyone telling me I changed address.
* When I use it professionally, my domain is my "business card", where I host my website with portfolio etc.
My friend is using it and the interface is not as polished as other providers,but definitely worth the money!
[1]: http://runbox.com/
I'm starting fresh and will be filtering mail by address in future: Gmail for non-personal stuff, signups, mailing lists, etc. My personal domain(s) for friends and important things.
Secondary is my quasi-professional front.
I use firstname@lastname.com for my primary personal email, hosted by Google Apps.
I use lastname@gmail.com for my primary impersonal email.
It was much easier to pick a team and run with it.
I picked Google.
Not sure what that means. How does a self-hosted email address lead to confusion? Confusion by who for what?
- Some sites will attempt to use the first part of your email address as your username.
- Foreign domains are difficult to explain to people who don't understand.
- People expect you to say a your username at a domain they have heard of.
- Anything other than .com is confusing.
eg: johnasmith@gmail.com is easier for humans to digest and computers to parse than john@johnsmith.net or john@smith.be or john@smith.me.uk
and fullname@gmail.com for friends.