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Comment on Ask HN: Why do some of the engineers/hackers manage their own mail servers?

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I do because I've been running it since before gmail was a credible option, and it's really not difficult or very much work to run a small mail server for a few people.

I also don't like being dependent on a free service that could at any time have a policy shift I don't like. Or simply be shut down; unlikely as that seems for gmail, the internet is littered with the corpses of services that seemed solid until they weren't.

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