Why do people keep saying "don't host your own email"? It's supposed to be interoperable. If you stop hosting your own email, they'll make it a closed network soon.
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@akshay and email is kinda important when doing business for example.
imagine your email dies and now you’re unreachable, and that might be a problem if you are providing any service since there is no feedback you can do.
why not just set up domain forwarding into, say, google?
very unlikely that you will become unreachable in this case.
@moragame@fosstodon.org if the advice is "don't self-host important stuff without skills", that's fine. But with email the reason I have seen people use is "deliverability". And I've never heard anyone say the former (sane) advice.
@akshay what is meant is likely “don’t self-host anything important if you can’t make it reliable”.
and that is a valid point. if you know how to self-host then do it for sure, but I’ve seen some servers break down due to maintenance issues.
my friend self-hosted matrix server and broke everything accidentally when doing an update. and there were no backups.
there was little reason to self-host an entire server really, considering they didn’t know how to maintain it.