--On Monday, October 01, 2018 6:37 PM +0200 Peter Eckel <lists at eckel-edv.de> wrote: > I fully agree with most of the former, except for the Google part. Google > is to privacy what a shark pool is to a carp. If possible, avoid Google > at all cost, and particularly for E-Mail. There are services around that > cost a very small amount of money (e.g. mailbox.org or posteo.de), > provide a very reasonable service and do *not* peek into your mail for > advertisement targets and sell your data to their customers. Fastmail looks attractive to me as it's IMAP-friendly. I run my own server but I'm recommending to my family that they move their accounts there if I "get hit by a bus". <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FastMail> I mostly run my own server because it's easy to create an infinite number of disposable "plussed" addresses as website login names. I've got a sendmail rule that lets me use a dot instead of a plus sign in such addresses to get around the websites that refuse a plus sign in an address. <http://mozilla.wikia.com/wiki/User:Me_at_work/plushaters> > You should also run your own DNS in that case, as many modern features of > secure mail services are tightly linked to DNS (e.g. SPF, DKIM, DMARC > etc.). DNSsec is preferred. This can be split. I let my hosting provider host my public domain name on their DNS servers. But I run a caching nameserver on my mail server to do the various lookups it requires. A forwarding nameserver for blacklist lookups is NOT recommended because of the way the various DNS-based blacklisting databases license their service.