This is a pointless comment, but with all the whining here I feel like making a counterpoint.
I run my own mail/irc/web/file/etc -server. Postfix on OpenBSD with maybe 10 config variable changes to add a DNS blacklist of my choice + secondary MX for a friend. FDM for sorting mail and piping stuff through bogofilter. Mutt and SSH to read mail from anywhere.
I post my email address everywhere and get about 10-15 spam mails per day that escape the blacklist. Of those, 99% are sorted out by bogofilter. I scan them for false positives like I scan other mailinglists for interesting topics. There are about 700 mails from various ml's every day. The maintenance time this setup "costs" is recovered in less than a week of not having to click through the slow gmail interface. There is nothing to do. Backups are done via rsync and cron, but they have to be done anyway.
Point is, running a private mail server is easy. But then I don't call myself hacker...
I run my own mail/irc/web/file/etc -server. Postfix on OpenBSD with maybe 10 config variable changes to add a DNS blacklist of my choice + secondary MX for a friend. FDM for sorting mail and piping stuff through bogofilter. Mutt and SSH to read mail from anywhere.
I post my email address everywhere and get about 10-15 spam mails per day that escape the blacklist. Of those, 99% are sorted out by bogofilter. I scan them for false positives like I scan other mailinglists for interesting topics. There are about 700 mails from various ml's every day. The maintenance time this setup "costs" is recovered in less than a week of not having to click through the slow gmail interface. There is nothing to do. Backups are done via rsync and cron, but they have to be done anyway.
Point is, running a private mail server is easy. But then I don't call myself hacker...