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Ask HN: What is your email setup?

2 points by anilshanbhag ↗ HN
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.

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Atg4V
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.
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LinuxBender
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.

To read my mail, I use

  strings -a /var/spool/mail/nobody | more
When I am done reading my mail, I use

  > /var/spool/mail/nobody