Sometimes you've been doing things a certain way for literal decades and all it takes an offhand comment to change your thinking.

In this case it's not even so spectacularly novel, just (I think even 2 separate) people stating they'd want to run their own mail server just for receiving important (e.g. 2FA) mails, not for sending or normal conversation. This was in the context of #ryoms - so everything else aside, just getting into discussions about some piece of tech (a type/role, not a specific software) can be useful.

@mwl This weekend I finally had time to read large chunks of #ryoms (I backed the ebook version), it's great and I learned a thing or two I have to tweak. Thanks for writing it.

Had to emergency-move the mail server on Friday/over the weekend. Glad I had trialled mailcow already, I'm using this now over docker-mailserver. Wasn't bad but I liked mailcow more and it has a few things that seem better but I couldn't run it for technical reasons.
So this marks the end of 15 years of running on the same IP address at Strato, gonna cancel that server ASAP, as their support simply sucks. You call them with "hey, my VPS with 6 cores shows a load of 0-1 but everything is so slow that single commands take a minute and a reboot takes an hour, I've had this in the past, please check your hardware" and "nah, our monitoring doesn't say anything". So I had migrated off of that box before I got a response to the email ticket I had written before the call.
Hetzner Cloud it is for now, unless I decide I want to get a dedicated box again, but I doubt it. Also seriously thought about ending the self-hosting experiment of either 16-20 years (I simply don't remember). #ryoms