*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.
https://poolp.org/posts/2019-08-30/you-should-not-run-your-mail-server-because-mail-is-hard/
It’s not super easy, but it isn’t impossible either, especially nowadays with email deployment suites
(I’m talking about the email part, hosting at home would also bring other issues e.g. availability, you would need a VPN to route it from a non-residential IP, etc)