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1. Grow Your Own Services (homegrown@social.growyourown.services)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jun-2022 13:49:56 UTC Grow Your Own Services

   Does anyone here have experience of running their own email instance?

   Would you say it is viable for a non-technical individual to run their own email service?

   Do you have any lessons to pass on?

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   • Daniel Lowe (dl@cantos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jun-2022 13:55:51 UTC Daniel Lowe

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     @homegrown It's like most technical things - setup requires expertise, and then it runs fine until it breaks, and then you need an expert again.

     If you aren't technical, you'd better have a good reason for getting your own rather than outsourcing it.

     I would argue that for most people, control of the domain name is more important than the mail service. Being able to point your email to another provider is what gives you agency.

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   • Adam B (shuttermonster@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jun-2022 04:51:59 UTC Adam B

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     @homegrown I'm an email admin by profession, but I opted to use a turnkey solution: Mail In A Box. You need some basic understanding of DNS, domain registrations, etc., But after that it's REALLY easy.

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