[bitexploder]

It isn't that bad. We self host. Dovecot + Postfix. Spam handling can be painful at times.

http://sealedabstract.com/code/nsa-proof-your-e-mail-in-2-ho...

These guys have a cool service to help ensure DKIM and all is working: http://www.port25.com/support/authentication-center/email-ve...

Mail is a good service to host yourself. With a couple of digital ocean boxes you are golden. Set up your backup MX to just hold mail and deliver it to your primary MX.

SMTP is forgiving and you can have many hours of outage of a primary mail server without losing mail.

You just have to be willing to do it.

[bashinator]

If it's on DO, then does it legally count as self-hosting? I was under the impression that you needed to physically own your own hardware.