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title: Replying to Carlos F. "Thrown in the Towel"
date: 2022-09-05
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author: Cincinnatus
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## Self-hosted Email is the Hardest, but also the Easiest

Here's one response to the post by Carlos F. throwing in the towel for self-hosted email.

https://vadosware.io/post/its-never-been-easier-or-harder-to-self-host-email/

Hosting your own email *is* hard, but not impossible. The technical aspects are easy. Getting your email to someone with an outlook.com address are practical impossible. But maybe you should just pick up the phone and tell that person Microsoft (for example) doesn't want them to get email from anyone except those who Microsoft says are "good". I know, I know, Microsoft is protecting me from "spam" even thought, to be honest, we solved that problem with technology a long time back...