Your own mail server

Privacy is between Tuta and Proton, I believe Tuta have the edge. I can't advise on storage.

Do you have experience of this? How much work is it to stay on top of white and black lists? Do you have a static IP?

Yes. You can get good ip's not blacklisted for spam spending a bit more. Remember to implement all the good practices needed to avoid being blacklisted. Go to mxtoolbox to see how you are doing. If you want it simple get a Linux server with cpanel or some other cheap clones.

Interesting, thanks. I haven't run email servers since the early 00's. At the time we were running the largest cluster of email servers in the UK for customers like friendsreunited.co.uk and match.com among others. We spanned our RIPE AS number into the US along with half our group of class C's to provide resilience. You weren't supposed to do that. Nobody noticed 😅 It all got very complex after that 😂

Well I am from the age where there was no Internet. Most of my stuff is zero standard by choice. I do not use any service from others. In the early 2000 we have been the first big e-commerce in an EU country with a well structured VPN and remote workers. We used voip when nobody even knew what it was and we essentially created from scratch all our management and picking optimization software. Now by choice I moved to mostly teaching tech stuff and I use only self hosted services. No google or meta allowed inside my property. All the data is ours and not a single picture of me is on the network. I like to keep living without pushy commercials and pay by use apps. Next step will probably be the development of non standard automation over tiny sized agriculture projects.

Owncloud on a server mapped with an alternative DNS system. VPN tunnel to connect securely. Self hosted bare metal machine with raid and backup over a-disk for stuff that should never disappear.. ever.

You are from the 1950's and 60's? Jeeez and I thought I was old 😳

No a bit later. My first computer at 11 was a ti99-4a. Had to start coding because there were no games available. That age

Remember Fidonet?

I'm more a hardware guy, I'm an electronics engineer that learned computing and then discovered the Internet. I and some colleagues turned it commercial in 1989.

Same. I am electronic engineer radio communication. I have way more fun building antenna systems. Had much fun building cards for controlling systems with ibm PCs and 286. We did interfaces for the multicd readers for radio stations in the early 90's. I have been thrown into software with the e-commerce but I still hate computers and more than few hours per day on the screen kill me. Layer 1 is what excite me more. More than teaching stuff I like to repair old cars and setting up my ham rig and antenna systems. Did a laser fm transceiver time ago. Usually I reject standard modern electronics where I cannot physically disable of modify things.