After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won.
After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won.
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I don't know if it's because I'm from Europe or something else but I've been hosting my emails for over 10 years and never really had issues like those discribed in the article.
The only issues I had was when I had to send a lot of emails in a shirt time (invites for a wedding, and it was on a newly created dedicated domain, don't know if that made it worse).
Also when I was hosting at home, but since I moved to a dedicated server everything has been fine.
That being said I agree that we are being victims of a disgusting racket and that something should be done to make sure everyone is doing their job so that we leave a fair chance to competition. There are rules to regulate other things, I don't see why it shouldn't be the case for email and interoperability in general.
Very interesting article and analysis, it's a shame we reached this state though...
Do you have a recommendation on the least horrible big email company to use for a personal domain? I'm using Proton, but I'm mildly annoyed that they don't provide native IMAP - you have to install their Proton Mail Bridge app.
I switched to posteo.net for that reason.
What are the shortcomings of the Proton Mail Bridge app?
It requires the paid version. It isn't available for Android. And it just shouldn't be required - email clients use POP3 or IMAP - those are the standards. I respect that Proton is trying to improve privacy with this app, but I wish they offered the option to use the established protocols too.