Subj : Google and AI
To   : All
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sat Nov 22 2025 12:29:14

Much has been made lately about Google opting in gmail users to allow
Gemini to learn from email messages and attachments. Opting out is
possible, but they've now tied sorting and auto-complete into allowing
Gemini access to your Gmail content.

I'm thinking it might be time to get my mail archives (at least) off of
Gmail, but I'm sure they're already farmed for any content they want.

At least it's easy to enable IMAP on Gmail and copy files to another
IMAP server.

I have a couple of home server possibilities if I want to self-host
mail, but after dealing with SPF, DMARC and DKIM at work I'm not excited
about hosting myself.

I'm not above running my own services, I ran Sendmail, Courier IMAP,
Qpopper and Procmail for my home domain at one point. I could look at
one of those all-in-one mail distros (Proxmox even has one!) and my
Synology NAS has their own mail and collaboration apps.

But, it comes down to Big Mail agressively marking mail from home
servers as SPAM - convenient when they run mail hosting...

Anyone have any experience with homelab-friendly hosting providers for
outbound email?



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