Welcome back to our series on taking your e-mail back! In part 1, we looked at exactly why we're spending so much time discussing how to host your own e-mail server—something that is by all rights a solved problem in the modern Internet age. We touched briefly on concepts of ownership and security before talking about the responsibility that comes with that ownership and security. E-mail is like a
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