Why You Should Not Run Your Own Mail Server

You should run your own mail server, both personally and professionally.

The whole internet thing gave us all a post office, gave us all a printing press and a newspaper. If we let corporations make running a web server or mail server or whatever too hard for a garage tinkerer, we as a species have lost a lot of freedom. Keep the Internet free: run your own damn servers.

Well that seems like it would be counter to what Digital Ocean should really be telling people not to do things themselves.

The article headline is more of a play on the number of times a sysadmin has cursed because of the mail server that she/he was administering. It's kind of been a right of passage, though becoming much less frequent these days with the use of gmail.

Well, troubleshooting why the heck Google's or FastMail's message didn't reached the recipient or why customer's e-mail hasn't arrived is much more difficult than looking at your own logs.

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