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Okay, so I tried Tuta and found the UI clunky and buggy. I tried Mailbox.org and their billing is a mess and they took my money without crediting the account. *(I have a pending ticket, we'll see what they said.)

I do have a proton mail account, but I haven't given them $ yet because of... well you know. Sadly, out of the three I've tried their product is the best.

Wondering what to check out next. I really want to ditch the G but I'm evaluating services before I jump off the ledge this time.

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[–] Luffy879@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Try it. Show me your whisdom of how you maintain an email server as a webadmin, let alone one whose job is not maintaining it

[–] a14o@feddit.org 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I set up a mailserver in NixOS. It was a bit of time investment because I really wanted to write it myself and understand how it all fits together, but maintenance is not an issue; I haven't touched it through 3 distribution upgrades. A friend just copied my config on a VPS and it works for them as well.

There's also a turnkey mailserver nix project that I haven't tried but it seems to just work: https://nixos-mailserver.readthedocs.io/en/nixos-26.05/

(I realize that NixOS is the new Arch, actually, but this sort of stuff is where it really shines.)

[–] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What VPS do you use, or do you use your home network?

[–] a14o@feddit.org 1 points 12 hours ago

It's just a hetzner box. I think the most important consideration is not changing the IP if you can avoid it.

[–] trojanbark@lemmy.world -2 points 3 days ago

Wow I really offended you