| > I don't personally know anyone who's taken the time or energy to move all his data off of bugged U.S. servers onto bugged European or Asian ones or attempted to host it himself ... Hi there. This is, in fact, exactly what I've been working on over the weekend. I have ~8 GB of mail spread across three e-mail accounts hosted by Google (excluding my original @gmail.com account, which I never use). I've now got my own server set up and about 0100 UTC today (Monday) I "flipped the switch" (changed MX records) and have been keeping an eye on it since then. I did an initial run with imapsync to move the bulk of the mail over and, after 0100 UTC (when the TTL expires) I'll do another run to make sure I've gotten anything that ended up in the mailboxes on Google's servers since then. Afterwards, I'll delete all of the messages in those Google accounts and, finally, remove the whole domain and such. I'm sure that Google will still have a copy of all of that for a good while but, at some point, they'll delete it. In the grand scheme of things, I know that it isn't really going to make a difference. It's more symbolic than anything but I can feel a little bit better knowing that my data is more secure/private than it was. I've been meaning to do it for the last few months and I'm happy that I finally devoted the time to making it happen. (For the curious... a RHEL derivative, configured according to the CIS RHEL6 Benchmark and DoD/DISA RHEL6 STIG (for the most part), running Postfix and Dovecot (w/ SSL/TLS and a "real" certificate although I'm starting to think I'd be more comfortable if I had just made my own) w/ AMaViS and ClamAV thrown in as well.) |