All this new excitement with Lemmy and federation has got me thinking that maybe I should learn to run my own instance. What always comes up though is how email is the orginal federated technology.

I am looking at proxmox and see that is has a built in email server, so now I am wondering if it is time to role my own.

I stopped using gmail a long time ago, and right now I use ProtonMail, but I am super frustrated with the dumb limitation of only having a single account for the app. I get why they do it, and I am willing to pay, but it is pricey and I don’t know if that is my best option. I guess it is worth it since ProtonVPN is included. It looks like they are expanding their suite.

Is it worth it? Can I make it secure? Is it stupid to run it off a local computer on my home network?

  • psilves1@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Firefox Relay is by far the easiest (and imo best) solution for that

    You can try it for free and if you use it enough it only costs $24 a year

      • psilves1@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Your first 5 email masks are free and if you install the extension a little icon will appear in most email fields. Let’s you create a new mask right there.

        If you buy the premium version you can get your own custom subdomain: @XXXX.mozmail.com where you pick XXXX

        This way you don’t even need the extension. You can just do something like “Lemmy@XXXX.mozmail.com” and Relay will “create” that email for you. Cannot recommend it enough, especially since it’s free to start

        • DidacticDumbass@lemmy.oneOPEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          That actually seems really awesome, like it defeats the reason I would ever want to create multiple email accounts, which is to manage different contexts like professional, personal for family and friends, commercial email for online stores, and email lists.