[inamiyar]

The problem with running my own email is I don't want the hassle of convincing Google I'm not spam.

[rantwasp]

gonna replace and evil with another one, but you can use amazon workmail (they have the spf, dkim, dmarc stuff figured out) with your own domain.

it takes 10 minutes to setup. it does not have a flashy web ui - but if you do imap it doesn’t matter.

cost: 12$/year for the domain, 4$/month for the user, 0.5$/month for the route53 zone

so 5.5$/month to kick gmail to the curb. the gov is still gonna get your emails if they want them.

[intricatedetail]

But does it mean Amazon reads your email?

[rantwasp]

you need to figure that out yourself. Does Amazon look at your files in S3? Do they inspect your API traffic? Look at the files on your EC2 instances?

Did I mention that Amazon has datacenters in places with stronger privacy laws (Germany cough cough)?

[intricatedetail]

I don't think companies that are too big to fail are particularly conscious of laws, especially in some European country...