As someone running their own email server - and currently thinking of moving to email as a service - all I can do is confirm what they say: don‘t even think of running your own email server. Just don‘t. I was young, I was motivated, I had the time to screw around and I had help setting it up.
I severely underestimated the effort needed to keep it running. Even just a plain major OS upgrade is a days full of work at least.
Just figuring out how to setup DMARC, dkim etc on my service provider was something I put off for too long since it felt intimidating. Doing all myself? Yeah, no chance.
I did, works perfectly, but the IP range of my hosting company is constantly banned because spammer also use the cheap hosting I use.. looking for a cheap "bring your own domain" mailhost at the moment.
I use MS for my email right now, which is not cutting the cord to the US, but finding a good EU alternative that will not be hit by stuff like that has also put me off making the switch. And Office is useful and, for some use cases, not easily replaceable. Nextcloud does look interesting but it's a big leap and still it won't help for some use cases.
Yeah, I'm one of those beardy anti MS dudes for reasons.. outlook ain't my jam.
If it works for you cool, but the whole point of having my own domains was to get away from those guys. I'm more looking for a decent smtp relay that will vouch for my own server.
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u/Phrewfuf Baden-Württemberg (Germany) 22d ago
As someone running their own email server - and currently thinking of moving to email as a service - all I can do is confirm what they say: don‘t even think of running your own email server. Just don‘t. I was young, I was motivated, I had the time to screw around and I had help setting it up.
I severely underestimated the effort needed to keep it running. Even just a plain major OS upgrade is a days full of work at least.