Nowadays you are de facto bound to mega providers to get reasonable mail service. It's just not an open platform anymore if you periodically can't send mail to 50% user base silos (yahoo, gmail, live) because of unpredictable spam filtering and no support from them to fix it.
And you need like 1GiB of RAM just to run the spam filtering monster software patchwork of perl spaghetti. Not even mentioning the maintanance work of updating this stuff.
Mail is forever broken and converges to a marked with high entry barriers in which only google and microsoft play.
Nowadays you are de facto bound to mega providers to get reasonable mail service. It's just not an open platform anymore if you periodically can't send mail to 50% user base silos (yahoo, gmail, live) because of unpredictable spam filtering and no support from them to fix it.
And you need like 1GiB of RAM just to run the spam filtering monster software patchwork of perl spaghetti. Not even mentioning the maintanance work of updating this stuff.
Mail is forever broken and converges to a marked with high entry barriers in which only google and microsoft play.