I think it depends what’s on your phone. I don’t use mine for email or banking; it’s 2FA, phone calls, and a map. I’m using a Galaxy S8 that I purchased in the summer of 2017, and I don’t get any updates any more.
If I had bank account information or access to other sensitive data I’d be a lot more concerned.
My biggest problem is apps that stop working. My carrier doesn’t support my phone with their voicemail app, for example.
I’ve been running mail servers for about thirty years; my personal ones and production for 100K+ users.
The personal one is a pain for the reasons you mentioned. I use sendmail instead of postfix, but I was able to use some rules to push certain messages through other relays.
I signed up for Amazon SES and have so far stayed in their free tier. Mail coming from one of my addresses always goes through SES, and mail from any address to certain domains (aol.com, gmail.com, etc.) go through SES as well.
It allows me to ensure delivery for my important mails, but leave things up to chance for less important ones.
It’s the best solution I’ve been able to come up with for a really annoying situation. Big Tech ruined it all.
Children playing in the distance. It brings me back to happy, simpler times.
Oof. Lack of X makes FC41 my last one, I guess.
One is that I can keep family email (everyone on the server) in the same ecosystem, so private information send between family members isn’t as likely to leak.
Another is also privacy – my mail isn’t being used to build a profile about me.
I also like the control and the ability to look at logs. If I don’t get an email, I can look at the server and figure out why it didn’t show up. It just provides more information for me.
You can always end it later, so stick around a little longer and see how things play out.
I’ve been using my own cloud-hosted SMTP relay and Zimbra server for over a decade now, and I love it.
There can be a bit of a learning curve, and in some cases sites won’t accept mail from cloud-hosted domains. I add those domains to a rule in sendmail that sends those domains through Amazon SES, and then they get accepted.
If you do go this route, just make sure that your recovery emails or 2FA for things like your registrar go somewhere else. If your cloud provider pulls the plug on you or something you don’t want to be stuck waiting for an email that can’t arrive.
I love the level of control that I have over my email and wouldn’t have it any other way.
tl;dr: steep learning curve, but worth it in the long run. Keep gmail as a recovery/2FA account or something, though.
I know his transgender daughter cut contact with him; is this his official declaration that he’s disowning her?
Even if Illinois was feasible, I don’t think I’d want that. I’d rather fix the system. And quit dancing around the issue of Puerto Rico statehood.