On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 22:48:54 +0200
Axel Berger  wrote:

> Deloptes wrote:
> > When I look opening i.e. yahoo mail ...
> > But at the end this is how they make the money.
>
> My email is part of my web hosting package. They make their money by
> sending me a reasonable bill once a year. I can put a number to the
> price of my package, you can't, but I'm convinced that, all added up,
> mine comes out cheaper.

 Well if we're comparing costs, mine runs on a pair of jails on my
FreeBSD NAS and uses a commercial delivery provider's free sample service
for outgoing relay (I could use my ISPs relay but it's less reliable). The
only real cost is my domain subscription and the tiny quantity of resources
it consumes.

 There are free services available on the internet that don't make
their money by selling your attention to advertisers. Mostly they're
samplers for much larger scale commercial users, there are some other
business models. I get my DNS servers, backup MX and outgoing mail relay
that way.

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