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I ran my own mail server for years because I didn't trust Google with _all_ my data. Started colocated server for a while, then VPS, then cloud. Setting up an maintaining SPAM mechanisms on a low volume mail server is a nightmare.

Switched to Fastmail and haven't looked back. Their Android and Web client are great and they've opened their JMAP[0] interface.

[0] http://jmap.io/

Fastmail is great until their support hands your account over to some random person that just happened to ask.

https://www.fastmail.com/about/privacy.html

They have a very strong privacy policy, they’re not just going to hand your email over to a “random” person.

They already have: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15855081

https://blog.fastmail.com/2017/12/06/security-account-recove...

> Just not sure why anyone would run an email server other than extreme paranoia.

Compliance.

NDA's.

How is it not set and forget?

I set up my configs ~5 years ago, and other than apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade, I havent had to do anything