[dikaiosune]

I've looked previously, and usually thought I would get some bare metal at a trusted colo and run my own server. However this has a variety of issues, including but not limited to getting the big email services (especially gmail, ironically) to trust your server as a non-spam gateway. Part of the problem here is that running a quality email service isn't cheap, and I'm not sure how much I'd have to trust a provider for it to be worth ditching google as my provider. In the past, the "easiest" answer to this in the abstract was for me to just do it myself, but I haven't had time and I'm concerned it would make it difficult for others to communicate with me.

[ocdtrekkie]

Running self-hosted mail is getting a lot harder because spam engines are much more hostile to it. Also, most well-known mail clients for self-hosters are very dated. There's a few new ones on the way, like Mailpile, but we aren't there yet.