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Ask Slashdot: Self-Hosted Gmail Alternatives?
linkedlinked writes "I'm tired of building my sandcastles on Google's beachfront. I've moved off Docs, Plus, and Analytics, so now it's time to host my own email servers. What are the best self-host open-source email solutions available? I'm looking for 'the full stack' — including a Gmail-competitive web GUI — and don't mind getting my hands dirty to set it up. I leverage most of Gmail's features, including multi-domain support, and fetching from remote POP/IMAP servers. Bonus points: Since I'm a hobbyist, not a sysadmin, and I normally outsource my mail servers, what new security considerations do I need to make in managing these services?"
Hi there, OP here. You're the only one of these assholes I'll actually respond to. Thank you! Thank you thank you thank you! You get it! To the rest of the Slashdot IT crowd, I shame you for your balls. Your utter lack of balls. Only this guy gets it. I want to abandon Google for personal reasons. Maybe an ex's dad works there and I'm "being watched". Maybe I'm a nudist, and my signature.png doesn't comply with their ToS. Fuck off, it's my business. Yes, I am a hobbyist. I only administer about fifteen servers, all cloud VPS that I've built by hand with love. I am not, however, employed as a sysadmin, hence my claims of "I am not a sysadmin", so I approach everything here with the stance of "I don't know about this as well as the qualified IT professionals who frequent this site." If this email server is just for me, I don't really worry about downtime, etc. My motivation to keep it up is intrinsic. Let's just assume I already keep my own blog hosted (with satisfactory uptime) and I'm not worried about having another service running on the box. If I can't easily provide for myself this base internet "staple good", then my friends, THE INTERNET IS BROKEN. I'm jumping into the deep end, installing postfix/dovecot/roundcube this weekend. I'd rather be SBL'd for coming from a small-time IP than hosted on servers sponsored by Google's Advertising division.
You're right, the internet IS broken. Still want to run a mail server? Welcome to Internet Hell and Mail Mediocrity. You asked a question, you got REAL answers and your answer is to tell everyone to fuck off?
Fuck you. I'm sorry I wasted my time responding originally.
Oh, and Requiem18th, if you seriously think "something like WoT" hasn't already been thought of and implemented (sorbs, spamhaus, dnsbl etc) then you have quite obviously never ran a mail server and have no reason to reply except to say "fuck corporate america!" so go back to smoking weed and watching your pit bull lick its ass while you watch reruns of Jackass.
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