*With ‘better’ I mean that an encrypted solution is adequate in these cases because the mails are on other servers, and the companies/servers depend on the jurisdiction where they are located. But by hosting a mail server at home, even unencrypted, we are 100% in control of our data.

PS: is there a self-hosting mail server solution that stores everything encrypted? I already self-host almost everything I use, but not email.

  • mox@lemmy.sdf.org
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    21 hours ago

    It takes a bit of reading into SPF, DMARC, DKIM etc.,

    That alone is often (usually?) not enough. Since many IP addresses are already blackholed before you even set up a mail server on one, there is also the slow and sometimes painful process of:

    • Figuring out by trial-and-error which recipients are not receiving mail from you (or are receiving it directly into their spam folders).
    • Figuring out which email filtering services are used by those recipients’ mail providers.
    • Figuring out how to contact those filtering services.
    • Figuring out what process each filtering service uses for requesting removal from their blacklists (or adding to their whitelists).
    • Navigating each of those processes.
    • Submitting documentation of having done so.
    • Waiting and hoping for the filtering services accept your request and start allowing mail from you.

    …and then starting all over again every so often, whenever a filtering service changes their configs or a new one appears.

    It can be done, and you might get lucky, but it often requires tenacity and a lot of patience.