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Speak for yourself - I've hosted my own email for over half a decade and never had any issues whatsoever. Set it up once, keep paying your DNS/VPS provider, and update your box every now and then, and you won't have any issues.

Of course, it's more work than having Google or Fastmail do it, but so what? I'm sure a significant majority of HN readers already have a VPS and domain name of some kind. Setting aside a few hours to set up a mail server on it isn't the indentured servitude many of y'all make it out to be.