[kwlug-disc] Re-re-re-re hashing the idea of running your own email server.

[Chamunks]

I figured since I accidentally threadjacked that last conversation about
NextCloud that I would start a new one.

B.S. <bs27975.2 at gmail.com>

















*Running one's own e-mail server is always a popular topic.Any amount of
poking into the idea quickly reveals an unexpected amountof complexity and
gotchas, which can be daunting - perhaps not so muche-mail / the server
itself, but the necessary ecosystem that surroundsit in today's world. Let
alone if you expand the topic to'communications' (instant messaging,
'skype', IRC, and the like). Iexpect many skitter away from the idea rather
quickly.Yet many do it, presumably happily and successfully.[Mind you, I
thought the same thing about voip / voip.ms <http://voip.ms/>,
buteventually, especially after posts from John, Oksana, and Raul,
haven'tlooked back since.]Any favourite 'how to' links out there?(Such seem
to be a moving target, it can be hard to discern what's'current'.)*

https://mailinabox.email/ if you trust the concept of curl'ing directly to
bash.  I've been tempted to try and get all of the dependencies pulled into
one gigantic docker image and see if I can't get it running there. Just
seems kinda crazy complex it includes everything like even a damn DNS
provider so that it can just update its own DNS records which will open you
up to DDOS problems.

There are a few dockerized megalithic containers now that exist that can
theoretically ship all of the stuff you need too but I think that
MailInABox recommended via https://privacytools.io sounds like just about
the most promising.

I personally would prefer using something more like Rain Loop
<https://www.rainloop.net/> which might actually help me encourage myself
to use PGP.  I don't trust options that offer to host my PGP keys on
someone else's proprietary service but I also need to have sync.  Also, my
biggest problem is Protonmail may boast a great concept but I don't need
yet another damn app on my phone that's going to burn my battery.  It also
needs to be something that I'll actually check too so I realize modern
convenience has made this somewhat of a tall order but I don't want my
stuff in the cloud anymore.
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