After seeing a past HN thread where someone lost access to their Gmail account, I am scared. I currently just use Gmail with no backup. Wondering if there are good suggestions on building a "real-world faults" tolerant email service.
I point MX for my domains to a VM. Postfix dumps everything to a text file. Most would use Dovecot but I'm too lazy and dont care.<p>To read my mail, I use<p><pre><code> strings -a /var/spool/mail/nobody | more
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When I am done reading my mail, I use<p><pre><code> > /var/spool/mail/nobody</code></pre>
I have an email specifically for account recovery and alerts on any changes to my other email accounts. All except the recovery email have two factor. The recovery email also has a max length password.