For example, something that is too complex for your comfort level, a security concern, or maybe your hardware can’t keep up with the service’s needs?

  • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Email. Way too complicated and lots of maintenance. Not to mention it you mess it up, there are huge downsides.

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      1 year ago

      I find it funny that a bunch of the simple basics are nowadays considered complicated. I’ve been doing my own mail and DNS for over two decades now, and don’t see a reason for stopping. It is pretty low maintenance, and generally less headache than having someone else do it.

      • Toribor@corndog.social
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        1 year ago

        Standing up email might not be that hard… but it’s much harder to ensure that your mail will actually be delivered successfully. Plus it’s not a service you can typically afford to go down. Any emails you miss during that downtime are gone forever, whereas even if my Vaultwarden credential vault goes down I can access passwords from a device that has things cached at least while I fix things.

        Plus the big providers just treat small mail servers with a lot more skepticism than they did 20 years ago.

        • aard@kyu.de
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          Plus it’s not a service you can typically afford to go down. Any emails you miss during that downtime are gone forever

          The sending server will retry a few times, so you have at least a few days to bring it back. And if you prefer an additional fail-safe - adding a secondary MX somewhere else which will just store mails until the primary comes back is trivial.