On 2019-09-16 03:47 PM, Christopher Browne via talk wrote:
A colleague at work (in the US) found that his ISP was going to outsource his email to Microsoft and charge $25/month for that. He poked around, and found his own personal "outsourcing" in the form of the following... https://github.com/tomav/docker-mailserver
Explained further here: https://tvi.al/simple-mail-server-with-docker/
I used to run my own IMAP mail server and used fetchmail to get my mail from Rogers and also their SMTP server. What will he be using to send/receive mail, if he doesn't have an email provider? I found running my own server too much bother, so I got my own domain, provided by Google, and use that. Works well. And since it's a paid account ($10 U.S./year) I don't get the ads etc. that free GMail accounts attract. It also gets me DNS for my domain, so I can have all my IPv6 addresses reachable by host name.