# After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won.

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## What Jamie wrote

I [gave up running my own mail](https://www.thingelstad.com/2007/02/04/bye-bye-thunderbird.html) in 2007. Largely because of spam managing email servers is a terribly tricky business. In the intervening years the software has gotten better, but the problems have gotten even worse. This article highlights some of the modern challenges, which are yet different these days. I still have one technical friend who runs his own mail (👋 hi Hadar!) and I know he can validate these same issues.

## Facts

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## Appears in

- [WT226: Weekly Thing #226 / Patagonia, Merge, Walrus](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/226/), Notable

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