And that's that... I was building up momentum at home to just move to proton mail. Now? Now I got no choice but to figure out another way to self host my own email somehow. That's an f-ing PITA.
Self hosting email is very easy, but one thing you have to know is that you can’t proxy your email server through CloudFlare, so if that’s a problem for you, you’re gonna have to figure out some other service.
I mean you can use an SMTP gateway, but that kinda defeats the purpose, since they can read your emails, and you are still dependent on that service. Finding a good and trustworthy, encrypted email provider is probably easier. Don't forget that you can still use a custom domain.
Is it? Running a mail server is easy, sure, but is actually ensuring that everyone you're trying to send email to will actually receive it, rather than being spam-filtered?