you should be able to host your own e-mail system.
the first BUT ... :)
* an "e-mail system" consists of many components which have to be (tightly) integrated -- MTA, MDA, MUA just to name the most obvious ones
* e-mail touches a lot of different fundamental areas of (inter)networking -- especially for example DNS ... if you don't get those things right, your outgoing mail will be considered SPAM by most of the larger mailsystems out there
* last but not least: the annoying incoming SPAM ... you have to setup some kind of filtering and maintain it
* additionally: you are targeted by several kind of attacks, because mailboxes are an essential bottleneck in lots of security-related workflows ... read: password reset / access-tokens etc.etc.
to integrate all of this is not trivial, but also not rocket-science, it just demands experience and knowhow in a lot of areas.
which leads to the second BUT ... ;)
those areas are sooo uncool right now - cloud/services/mobile/crypto/web3 ... these are the hip places to be today ...
why bother with something sooo 20th century like operating a mailsystem or a server-system at all!?
only "weirdos with alu-hats" and "old farts" are doing this ... (i'm one of them ;))
the first BUT ... :)
* an "e-mail system" consists of many components which have to be (tightly) integrated -- MTA, MDA, MUA just to name the most obvious ones
* e-mail touches a lot of different fundamental areas of (inter)networking -- especially for example DNS ... if you don't get those things right, your outgoing mail will be considered SPAM by most of the larger mailsystems out there
* last but not least: the annoying incoming SPAM ... you have to setup some kind of filtering and maintain it
* additionally: you are targeted by several kind of attacks, because mailboxes are an essential bottleneck in lots of security-related workflows ... read: password reset / access-tokens etc.etc.
to integrate all of this is not trivial, but also not rocket-science, it just demands experience and knowhow in a lot of areas.
which leads to the second BUT ... ;)
those areas are sooo uncool right now - cloud/services/mobile/crypto/web3 ... these are the hip places to be today ...
why bother with something sooo 20th century like operating a mailsystem or a server-system at all!?
only "weirdos with alu-hats" and "old farts" are doing this ... (i'm one of them ;))
br v