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  • “I am a fucking genius. Let me teach these fuckers how it’s done and save humanity once and for all”.

    That doesn’t work, makes you look like a prick, and you are not helping anyone.

    We have all come in here, and otherr places, asking for help from people that have already crossed the red sea, this is exactly what the OP and some others are doing.

    As a community we’re supposed to help, thus giving back some of what was given (and may be given in the future) to us by others.

    Seems like that’s an alien concept for you, uh?





  • I have about 8 months left on my family plan, and I’m already changing those aliases, which has allowed me to go over some abandoned stuff and some things I didn’tknow that I want to eliminate. Already test-driving (and hammering hard) stalwart for email on a VPS, and just 2 days ago I finally finished deploying Psono in my proxmox (way harder than I remember vaultwarden, but bitwarden is no longer an option for me because it is on a different path to the same exact bullshit).

    My main friction will be moving my wife yet again from one workflow to another (Fuck Proton for putting me through this shit again).

    Still no idea what I will use for geographic VPN, but that’s nowhere near as important for me as password manager and email.

    We already have everything on my server with nextcloud for files and immich for videos and pictures, so that’s a non-issue for me.



  • That’s exactly right. I got Proton Family about 13 or 14 months ago witha 2 years subscription, and am getting ready to run stalwart as my email server on a VPS and call it a day.

    Have been testing for about 2 weeks, and after finally getting it right, it has been incredibly solid.

    I tested the e2ee with my own proton email (pgp) and it’s flawless.

    Before stalwart, I tried to have my own email server, what a pain in the ass that was. Not anymore.



  • I’m on a 2 year family plan in proton that has to be around 1 year in. Now, in the last few months I’ve been upping my game in self-hosting, even for our family business (moved from Zoho Workplace to a VPS with Nextcloud and MXroute for email, with mandatory PGP for internal emailing and all files in next loud encrypted, and it’s been great, but it does come with some extra work for me).

    I spent the last 2 days deploying stalwart in the same VPS with a domain I wasn’t using to test it as a potential email server to self-host when Proton’s subscription ends. It seems to be working well, I even got it to e2ee between that and my Proton email (can’t get Tuta to accept a single email from it though, still need to tinker a bit it seems). Using SMTP2Go for outbound emails (free gives me 1,000 emails sent every month, ans I know my 6 family users together don’t send even 500 emails in a month combined) to avoid the VPS IP address from being blacklisted if something goes wrong.

    I urge everyone to try it. It is not as easy to implement as they try to make it in YouTube videos, specially if you try to use as many security and privacy features as possible, but it is the easiest email server I have ever tried to implement, and I believe it is absolutely feasible for personal stuff (not too sure about business, so I’ll stick to MXroute for that for now).

    If you have an unused domain (maybe a used one that you don’t rely on for emailing) and some space in your homelab or in a VPS, Stalwart + SMTP2Go is a fun and potentially productive project to give a shot.

    Edit: I just went into my Tuta account and the emails are there. Seems it was an impatience issue more than it was technical 😁











  • I believe that you are both correct. 8 to 10 years ago I realized how much data these companies and governments gather about me, and it scared the shit out of me. I was not aware before that, so I had Alexas all over my house, smart devices, a Samsung SmartThings, the works.

    Then my slow walk to privacy started. My home is fully automated now, down to the sprinklers, but it’s all via Home Assistant, frigate for my cameras (inside home assistant), not one of my IoT devices has access to the internet, they live in an isolated VLAN, and I haven’t had any mainstream social network account or WhatsApp for over 8 years now.

    The fact is that a lot people don’t care because they don’t know, like me back then, but finally knowing is what jump-started this path.

    I do agree that there’s no helping someone that doesn’t want help, that’s a hard fact, but if we do move this information around, we stand to “cure a few normies” along the way.