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> You could self host your own email

You can. I might be able to (there’s a lot of crap around spam filtering and SPF that I’d have to fight with).

My mother, father, sister, cousins, nieces and nephews? Not a chance in hell.

>>falcol+(OP)
The only people who recommend self-hosting email are ones that haven't tried it.

We have an admin who spends a good 40% of his workweek doing just our email servers. They are a massive PITA.

>>FlownS+G3
No, also people who host themselves and enjoy the hobby time and don't understand how the general public lives.

>>gowld+0c
I'm one of those people, generally, but even I'm not signing up to host an email server. Screw that.

>>FlownS+G3
I have self-hosted E-mail for myself and my family for years, probably close to a decade now--I lost count. It's a learning curve at first but once it's dialed in and working, there's really nothing to touch. Occasionally, like once every two years or so, I find my spam filter process crashed and failed to relaunch or something, causing delivery delays.

>>ryandr+pO
"...but once it's dialed in and working, there's really nothing to touch"

...until your upstream changes something.

>>gorbac+oW
Or an opaque third party (i.e. a spam list) puts you on their lists.