My preference. I don't really go anywhere so around the world is not required for me. It also means that when either my self hosted solution or the commercial solution gets popped there is nothing to leak. My emails are not exposed to the internet 99.99% of the time.
Run an IMAP server (on a separate host or VM) behind a locally hosted VPN - Wireguard is easy to set up and works fine for this - and you can have it both ways: mail accessible from all your clients no matter where you are. If your mail server is breached there won't be anything on it since everything is sucked up by the IMAP server. If your PC (where you currently store your mail) is compromised they'll be able to get access to everything so in that respect there is no change.
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My preference. I don't really go anywhere so around the world is not required for me. It also means that when either my self hosted solution or the commercial solution gets popped there is nothing to leak. My emails are not exposed to the internet 99.99% of the time.
Run an IMAP server (on a separate host or VM) behind a locally hosted VPN - Wireguard is easy to set up and works fine for this - and you can have it both ways: mail accessible from all your clients no matter where you are. If your mail server is breached there won't be anything on it since everything is sucked up by the IMAP server. If your PC (where you currently store your mail) is compromised they'll be able to get access to everything so in that respect there is no change.