# Mail-in-a-Box

<https://mailinabox.email/>

- Host: [mailinabox.email](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/mailinabox.email/)
- Saved: December 4, 2023 (2023-12-05T02:09:07Z)
- Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/19b8fe3130de/
- JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/19b8fe3130de.json

## What Jamie wrote

I long ago decided to outsource email to Fastmail, and in general running your own mail server is very difficult. At the same time, I applaud and support efforts like this to make it simple for you to self-host your own email. Email was probably the most decentralized protocol on the Internet for decades, and is now in the stranglehold of Google and a handful of other giant service providers. The reputation systems used to fight spam make it very difficult to setup your own server and have anyone get your mail. The best antidote would be thousands (or tens of thousands!) of mail servers running in peoples houses.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT272: Weekly Thing 272 / Escape, Fuzzy, Melodrip](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/272/), Notable

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