[monsto]

You said "privacy and security" but for a personal email, there's a much bigger problem... spam.

It's been a couple years since i tried it, but I used <name>.tld for email like you're considering. I never received more than a few emails a day, but it was greatly outnumbered by spam. probably 100:1. gmail and Google Apps mail is the tits with spam. false positives (or negatives) are very rare on the order of 1 every month or 2... probanly 1:1000 emails.

If you use Google Apps for email, it syncs right in with android devices and is subject to the same security (good or bad) of gmail. Even if you're an experienced sysadmin (irrelevant of os) it will take an order of magnitude more time to setup and maintain the infrastructure than if you just use google.

yeah yeah i know, i'm suckin their junk pretty hard... but the beauty of it is that their stuff 'just works'. It's hard to beat.

[dangrossman]

I've found Rackspace Mail's spam filter to be better then Google's. It's $2/month per mailbox, with a minimum of $10/month across the account (all domains/mailboxes).

http://www.rackspace.com/apps/email_hosting/

[edj]

Good point. I've been on Gmail so long I forget that spam isn't a solved problem everywhere.