| "Do I have any reason to be scared that my current setup might become "closed" in the future? Not trying to be paranoid, just wondering." Yes, a little bit, I think ... specifically with regard to running your own email server. I have run my own personal email server for about 20 years and rsync.net and Oh By have their own email servers as well. What I have noticed is that gmail (and AOL) consistently classifies my email as spam even though my configuration and spam scores are flawless. I am on 10+ year verified clean IPs, I have everything (DKIM/DMARC/SPF) configured ... and email to new addresses very, very often (although not always) goes to their spam folders. Google/AOL/MSN/whomever are incentivized to not support private email servers. If you have personnel and resources dedicated to making this work (as a medium/large business might) then you can keep up with this wack-a-mole email issue. If you do this on your own it becomes very expensive in terms of time and frustration. Personally, I will not give up self-providing my own email[1] but in answer to your question, there is a lot of pushback against running your own SMTP. [1] In fact, it is my ambition to begin self-providing my own dialtone ... providing my own VOIP service, etc. |