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?

  • 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.

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      1 year ago

      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.