I have run my own mail server for years. It absolutely was complicated for me to set up but I loved the process of learning and got it going without too much trouble. Now I can get mail delivered to nearly everyone, except Charter. It's been NBD from a maintenance point of view. Spam is all tuned nicely and I generally don't have to think of it.
E-mail servers are complicated. People with skills and interest can do them, no problem. It's not overly hard. I agree with that.
But I sure don't go recommending it to my friends who wouldn't appreciate spending a few days learning and setting all that up.
What I can do, however, is offer them e-mail accounts! So I guess as long as every group of 50-100 friends has one person willing to run an e-mail server, then we're all good. Of course, it'd probably be a pain to switch when that person dies or loses interest.
Maybe we just need to make it really easy to have a email@myname.tld that is portable and easy to move around.
E-mail servers are complicated. People with skills and interest can do them, no problem. It's not overly hard. I agree with that.
But I sure don't go recommending it to my friends who wouldn't appreciate spending a few days learning and setting all that up.
What I can do, however, is offer them e-mail accounts! So I guess as long as every group of 50-100 friends has one person willing to run an e-mail server, then we're all good. Of course, it'd probably be a pain to switch when that person dies or loses interest.
Maybe we just need to make it really easy to have a email@myname.tld that is portable and easy to move around.