[jedberg]

From this[0] report from proton mail, 74% of European email is routed through USA servers. So even if you care, the person you are sending to or receiving from probably does not. So the US companies are still seeing it.

For the use case of you and your wife, you don't really need to self host a mail server, you just need a file server, unless you're forwarding each other emails you got externally, in which case, someone probably already read it.

My overall point is that email requires at least two parties to have access to the content, oftentimes more than two, and chances are one of those parties is not privacy conscious, which breaks any privacy you think you might have.

[0] https://proton.me/business/europe-tech-watch

[comrade1234]

Proton marketing. They're saying 75% of European companies are hosted in u.s. servers. Please buy our encryption product.

So if they self-hosted more they would t go through the USA.

And I bet now that 75% is decreasing rapidly.

But really email is not secure. It should be encrypted on the wire server to server but that's not guaranteed.

So just try hosting it yourself. It's not a big deal.