I enjoy running my own mailserver, Mainly because I know how and can tolerate delivery issues. However I don't think it is less expensive than a managed email service. I host it on a virtual server I am paying ~$10 a month for. I do other things with that server so it is hard to say exactly how much the email costs.
if interested, my stack is very simple:
openbsd: opensmtpd: opendkim
To read mail I ssh in and use mutt. imap via dovecot is an option I have used before. however because I using mutt anyway. ssh/mutt is a lot easier to set up.
I have not needed spam protection yet, when/if I do I will plug in rspamd and openbsd's native spamd.
I use https://openbsd.amsterdam/ as my vhost. I don't know if I could really recommend it to others. it is this effort to emply openbsd's native vmm as a service. The down sides: performance is not that great, it goes down twice a year for host updates. It is run by one person. The upsides: That person does a really great job at customer service. stable ip/ip6 address, reverse pointers. ssh based vm control.
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I enjoy running my own mailserver, Mainly because I know how and can tolerate delivery issues. However I don't think it is less expensive than a managed email service. I host it on a virtual server I am paying ~$10 a month for. I do other things with that server so it is hard to say exactly how much the email costs.
if interested, my stack is very simple:
openbsd: opensmtpd: opendkim
To read mail I ssh in and use mutt. imap via dovecot is an option I have used before. however because I using mutt anyway. ssh/mutt is a lot easier to set up.
I have not needed spam protection yet, when/if I do I will plug in rspamd and openbsd's native spamd.
I use https://openbsd.amsterdam/ as my vhost. I don't know if I could really recommend it to others. it is this effort to emply openbsd's native vmm as a service. The down sides: performance is not that great, it goes down twice a year for host updates. It is run by one person. The upsides: That person does a really great job at customer service. stable ip/ip6 address, reverse pointers. ssh based vm control.