I have been thinking of completely going off Google. I have a Nextcloud server for documents and contacts and calendar. Thinking of moving mail away too. Currently I am conflicted between hosting my own email server. On searching only advice I am getting is not to do it.
How many of the homelabers do host their own email server? What software do you use? Any tips.
I use Mailcow Dockerized with no issues. But I’ve also ran email servers for 3 decades personally and professionally. If you try it, I would start out with a completely different domain and be prepared to be down for a long time while you figure out how to appease the anti-spam gods with things like SPF, DKIM, DMARC and DNS issues.