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Email ownership, I give up. (lemmy.today)

submitted 2 weeks ago by altphoto@lemmy.today to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I give up.

I tried left and right to try to install an email server so I could degoogle my life.

But therechnical barrier is thick and Google keeps adding more to it. Forget it. I can't even get thru the installation process much less trying to get my shit off Google.

I figure, I don't actually have any need for my email addresses. Just like my phone number. I never call anyone. I'm going to discourage my kids from using email at all. I'll remind everyone I know that I don't use email at every opportunity I get just like I remind people to not call me and that my phone number is not available.

Between spammers and Google, I just don't need this headache in my life. My mom is much less technically savvy than the average pet. So Google will just siphon her data and when the megabits are full then you just delete the old stuff.

You don't need it. No one will spend their life reading your emails when you're gone or watching your videos or listening to your recordings or viewing your photos. There's no need to worry about just deleting the pile of shit you've accumulated. I'm this done.

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[–] kepix@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

weird to see someonengetting worked up about a service he barely uses and sending little data by default.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 0 points 2 weeks ago

Hell is other people. My wife opens her new phone and says! Hey why am I running out of space already! See my gmail says I got no more space!

I tried syncthing and it was great for a while. Now I got an rsync script that I gotta run from time to time.

But wouldn't it be great if The email just came off the bastards and into my own central server instead? That's what I've been trying hard to do. I'm just not hitting the ball on this one. Mailcow, mailserver, stalwart, and a good other bunch. I always just get stuck in some part of the installation or end up with issues sending or receiving. But thinking about it, if I have issues, she's going to have issues. So it's not even worth it.

[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

Similarly I gave up trying to keep up with the ever evolving mail server requirements. I'd wake up to find my emails weren't reaching people because Google and MS had strongarmed some change into place again.

These days I just use inbox.eu for my email.

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