Self-hosting email infrastructure is technically complex and unreliable, causing developers to abandon control over their email

Developers and small business owners want to self-host email for privacy and independence but face severe operational challenges: managing DNS records, SPF/DKIM/DMARC authentication, spam filtering, server maintenance, and deliverability issues. Existing solutions require deep sysadmin knowledge, constant monitoring, and often fail silently, causing critical emails to land in spam or disappear entirely. Current managed email services lock users into expensive vendor ecosystems with poor privacy, leaving a painful gap between 'easy but compromised' and 'private but broken.'