[Meekro]

You're right that many things are insecure. Of all the services people use on a daily basis, Gmail is probably among the best-defended. It still has security problems, though, and I want it to get better and not use the lack of quality competitors as an excuse to stop improving.

Unfortunately, maintaining and securing a private email server can be a big job. Google already does that job, and their data centers are much more secure than the VPS provider where you'll host your private email server.

All I'm asking for -- and I don't think this is unreasonable -- is to rely on their world-class technical security, while being able to disable all password recovery methods, which are vulnerable to social engineering.