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  • Best I can figure, choose a company that has well established general hosting services and get email through them.

    It’s going ro be really interesting to see if Thunderbird is able to make a good alternative. I really like the direction they are going, but time will tell if is sustainable for them and users alike.

    Personally, I’m using Hostinger, which is reasonable and reliable.

    Some people are relying on specialty private email providers like Proton or Tuta, but I have a big dose of skepticism. Lots of people are canceling their Proton subscriptions, and Tuta depends on using their clients because of the secure way it’s built.

    I would not be interested in attempting to self-host email. The service itself is trivial for an experienced network person (which I’m not), but the big picture is impossibly complex. There is a complicated and somewhat opaque reputation system that will arbitrarily block a lot of self-hosted email services. Some people have found ways to make it work, but it always seems pretty tenuous to me.

    As far as email archiving, I highly recommend self-hosted Bichon, which I have run for a while and love it. I keep a few months of email locally, and the rest is on my server backup. It’s straightforward to setup and use, fast searches, easy automations, etc.

    As others have said, radicale is excellent for hosting calendar and contacts through CalDAV and CardDAV. I’ve used it exclusively for a while and never had an issue. The formats are pretty standard, so you more or less get your choice of client on any system.











  • I have a reolink setup that I am about to expand. I had it set up initially through frigate, as others have recommended. However, I found that setup was not simple (although lots of documentation). More importantly, it was slightly burdensome on my setup. If you have a reasonably robust system, it shouldn’t be an issue, but be aware of the system requirements.

    Instead, I decided to use on-board capabilities. It was not advertised, but the cameras I chose have an internal SD card slot. It’s a bit of work, but if you set it up on a closed network, you can access their features over IP directly without any internet access. Live feed is visible from home assistant or other options. Since the processing and storage is on the device itself, there is no drain on the server.