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Hey random PSA:
Considering selfhosting email, but worried about all the bureaucracy/signing emails/other "antispam" shit the big corps make you deal with?
That only matters for SENDING. If sending email isn't much of a concern, if you just want to sign up for things and get 2FA codes and whatnot, you don't have to deal with any of that at all!!
You still /can/ bother with that stuff, and if it lets you send great, and if you do it wrong, you can still receive.
Also, with your own domain, you can start on a hosting platform (we're on Fastmail for our business domain, because one selfhosted email server is quite enough thankyou) and later move to selfhosted, OR vice versa if selfhosted gets to be too much. You might have to move your email history around, but people sending email to you don't have to know or care, you've still got the same address.
And if one email provider screws you over, you can just MOVE, and keep your address!
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