[Discuss] Running a mail server, or not

[darose at darose.net (David Rosenstrauch)]

On 06/20/2018 04:26 AM, David Kramer wrote:
> Questions:
> - Are there any other solutions to my end goal (privacy and control over 
> mail routing to mailboxes) that I'm missing, other than running my own 
> mail server? Some other mail platform I can trust and also set up very 
> complex routing rules with?? GMail and Office365 are right out on 
> general privacy and trust principles, and client-side filtering is not 
> an option because I read my email on 4+ devices.

I have a similar setup, but handle it a bit differently.  My take on it 
is:  I don't want to be in the business of running the server that 
receives mail.  (I don't want to have to worry about security, people 
using my server as a relay, making sure the server is up 24x7x365, 
SPF/DKIM, etc.)  So instead I have my mail get delivered to the mail 
server of my hosting provider (Dreamhost).  After that I bring the mail 
over to my home email server (using fetchmail) where I run dovecot IMAP, 
exim, sieve filtering, spamassassin, and a webmail (roundcube).

Hope this is a useful data point.

DR