Holy crap!
I really want to host my own email service, but I was just looking at mail-in-a-box and mailcow docs and it sound HARD! also the hardware requirements for mailcow are insane (8gb ram for 5-10 users? And 40gb space?)
Have been wanting to do this for a long time but these things are preventing me to.
Might do it when I have spare time and energy.
@alavi Good luck! Reliably hosting email is difficult. I pay a reasonable amount for zoho to host my domain's email and I don't have to worry about it.
@alavi What Valen said. In fact, due to infrastructure "situations" it might be impossible. Even if you properly set up the vps, the app, and the domain email policies, your ip address might shoot you in the foot.
tuta, zoho, hey(.com) are all great options to make sure the outgoing mail doesn't end in Spam. If data independence is your priority, double-check their exporting features. It's all standardized.
@cleantext
I get mail service for my organization from an (internationally) unknown provider and it never had problems. It's a hosting service that comes with the mail server with my domain.
How come they can make it work?