It’s not only self-hosted email that is affected. My main email address is the one attached to my domain, which I’ve owned for over 20 years, and is managed by my webhosting company, a perfectly respectable, legitimate business that at one point handled about a third of all internet traffic in my country. This company is, nevertheless, not considered trustworthy enough for emails through their servers to reliably be delivered to their destination. I increasingly have to use an email address from a major multinational corporation because the email address from a merely large national corporation only has a 50/50 chance of reaching the recipient.

Email is becoming obsolete anyway. I only use it personally to register accounts online. I have an old email address that I got 20 years ago. I haven’t checked it in years. It holds several hundred thousand emails and was constantly full of junk mail. It just became totally useless to me a long time ago.

We use email at work, but not as much as we used to because there are better ways to communicate since everyone has a phone. We don’t even use the computers in our offices much anymore because it’s just easier to use a phone. The execs have tablets that they carry around, then dock at their desks. They don’t even have desktop computers anymore.