I know the adage that self-hosting email is hard. I use a third party smtp server to send emails for my Lemmy instance in order to guarantee delivery, for example.

However, other than potential uptime, what are the disadvantages to setting up self-hosted incoming email?

Incoming email is like 99% of my email usage. I’m happy to use a third party mail provider for outgoing email, but don’t see why I shouldn’t simply host incoming email myself.

Thank you <3

  • LyingPenguin@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I don’t see how this is an issue. I would assume self-hosting refers to some VPS at some hosting provider, so the IP doesn’t matter anyways. Of course, if they are talking about hosting at home, then yes. But in this case they’ll probably have a hard time opening receiving ports for email anyways, I could imagine. At least I would block these ports if I were an ISP for end users.