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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I've managed to do it for my personal email and find it very rewarding. Sadly, I could never use it for my business. It's just too risky and there may always be a few delivery problems here and there.

VPS hosting, BTW, not home.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I have setup a mail server for my employer, and doing it manually yourself is difficult. I didn't want to do it for myself as well.

However I looked into mailcow, and tried that privately and it works great so far! However, i would dedicate a separate VPS for just that.