Re: Used to run my own mail server 6 or 7 years ago, but stopped
One of the most common attacks I saw the last time I hosted a mail server (and this was years ago) were a huge amount of brute force attacks on IMAP ports. So much so that they were effectively a DoS. And mitigation was not easy as IPs were all over the map. And some of the mitigation I had in place gave me grief when I was in Mexico & was locked out because of an unusual source address....
Also, the amount of inbound spam was an issue, it was somewhere around 30x legitimate mail volumes. Granted, I've had the same email for ~20 years, so that doesn't help.
All-in-all a headache I'd rather not deal with. Sure, I'd have some illusion of privacy & security, but since I view email as the equivalent of sending a postcard, I'm really not sure what the ROI is....
Biting the hand that feeds IT
