On Wed, 21 Mar 2018 09:00:16 +0100 <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> To put that on stronger terms -- we'd end up with two and a half > gatekeepers for mail: Google, Hotmail (aka Microsoft) and... who > did I forget? yahoo for a starter, then there is that French mob OVH and the NL mob > > The same nightmare we have at the moment with the so-called "social" > networks. > > They are already trying hard (and spam *is* their ally in that). Don't > help them, they are powerful enough as-is. Sspam? the above are the major sources. I've got permanent blocks on their IPs. In the Tl;Dr answer as to why I don't pay someone else to host my mail, $$$ says it all. My mail server runs on my oldest hardware. It was a P90 with 96Mb(?) ramm until a couple of years ago. now it is a PII and it uses the same quantum 6.4Gb scsi that is has for most of its ~ 20 year life (hardware and mailer).
