Hey all, I’ve been taking my digital privacy and security much more seriously this year, but the one thing I’ve been stuck on and feels overwhelming to me is email. So I wanted to know what do you guys use or what practices do you follow? Do you keep a separate email or alias for every single account, or just compartmentalize, like one email address for online shopping, one for business, one personal correspondence, and etc.
What services do you use? Right now I have a free Tutanota and ProtonMail account but haven’t decided which one to pay for, if either. ProtonMail makes me iffy with the amount of controversy and debate that has come out of them in recent years even though it comes with a lot of other nice stuff like cloud storage and a vpn. Tutanota I just dislike the fact I can’t add it to third party mail apps like Thunderbird, but this might not be a deal breaker. I know there are others, so what do you guys use? I don’t need something to protect my emails from the NSA or organizations like that but definitely something more private and secure than gmail. Thanks.
That’s all fine and dandy until your IP address and/or email address gets blacklisted. Hosting the server is the easy part. Properly dealing with anti-spam measures so you don’t get flagged as a spammer or scammer is the hard part. And before you think that’s unlikely, one of the ways of getting flagged is to run an email service on a consumer ISP network (e.g. comcast).
Most if not all ISPs block the common ports for this reason. So it’s a given to host on bare metal servee with dedicated IP.
But if you are only sending and receiving for yourself, does it really matter? Might matter if you send bulk emails or manage an email dist. But for personal usage, I don’t think deliverability would be an issue
Fine, don’t believe someone that’s done it before. Google “why you shouldn’t host your own email server” and research before you say anything else.