As someone who does run his own mail server, I'd really prefer not to. Whenever I upgrade anything, I have to briefly panic about whether it's broken my mail setup. There's always the vague fear that the reason I haven't got an email yet is because I've accidently rejected it or dropped it in some black hole or another. And, perhaps most importantly, when it does go wrong, there's nobody for me to theraputically scream at.
I don't use gmail for the same reasons that I don't use hotmail or any other large provider. I like having my mail somewhere where I can always get at it, and don't have to worry about them suddenly altering usage policies in a way that would make it difficult to get at my data again. I like having the associated metadata that my mail logs give me. I like the fact that there's only one machine I have to destroy in order to get rid of all the evidence. If I could get all that without the misery of actually having to run the damn thing myself, I'd probably do so.
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Date: 2006-11-22 12:16 pm (UTC)I don't use gmail for the same reasons that I don't use hotmail or any other large provider. I like having my mail somewhere where I can always get at it, and don't have to worry about them suddenly altering usage policies in a way that would make it difficult to get at my data again. I like having the associated metadata that my mail logs give me. I like the fact that there's only one machine I have to destroy in order to get rid of all the evidence. If I could get all that without the misery of actually having to run the damn thing myself, I'd probably do so.