_should_ you self-host your email? i dunno, i'm not your mom, pick your own poison. i do it because i need independence: throughout most of my life i have been, for various reasons, under significant risk of losing control of corporate hosted email in one way or another. doing it myself solves that.
_can_ you self-host your email? Absolutely, in under 500 lines of Nix code
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2025-10-01 08:52:23 UTC
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