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  • Way back 2008-2012 I had a server running on a “slice”, the early virtualization tech. Since I was running a complete linux system, having outgrown shared or managed hosting, I figured I’d run my own mail server.

    It mostly worked fine but overall was way more work than it was worth. It’s complex software. You can end up dealing with misconfigurations that are tough to figure out, spam bans, security threats, and the worst for me - upgrades that break everything and then you don’t have email u til you spend hours fixing it. And since it’s complex, and that would only happen once a year or so, it took a lot of effort since I wouldn’t remember what I did last time.

    So, I ended up switching to a mail host. Way easier, works all the time. If there’s a problem they get to be the ones to fix it, and they’re surely better at that than I am since I didn’t set out to be a mail server specialist.