I porsonally am a fan of thunderbird, but I use protonmail for most of my emails 
is there a particular service that works mest for people here? I have seen a lot of good things about mailcow, but i wanted to ask around!
as it has been answered countless times, for average people it is generally not recommended to run your own mail service due to the complexities behind it, tuta and proton are more than fine imo.
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I just want to host it, as I have a public domain and prefer to keep my proton email private when signing with pgp and whatnot. I agree with you though; I have both tuta and proten running on my phone. 
why not setup your domain with proton or tuta.
and I wonder what you mean by keeping it private, you can just use different aliases, I personally use my domain with proton and I have one anyone can email me with and one that is reserved for private matters or local that I don’t mind sharing or needed.
eg.
I have
gorupublic@gorujokun.cy, Public email
and one private that I do not share publicly, same domain though ([redacted]@gorujokun.cy)
also I looked at the sent emails, the pgp signing key is reffering to the email you sent to, so if I sent on my public email, the public key is shown for: gorupublic@gorujokun.cy
private:
[Look at the last 2 digits at least on the hex that they’re different]
public:
i would just prefer to self host, and i would prefer not to pay an extra fee. (also learning experience)(i am probably buying proton duo anyways idk)
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Check out:
I’ve been using this for a while and have had zero issues it also supports incoming main PGP encryption so you can get a similar level of inbox encryption as Proton or Tuta.
If you enable WKD you can also automatically receive PGP encrypted emails from Proton Mail and Mailbox customers.
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just keep in mind that unless you have that technical know how of emails I just usually dont suggest self hosting. It’s especially the case if you won’t know what you’re doing…
the emails i get via this address aren’t so important, as much as it is a learning experienceand a cool thing to have 
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I’m just trying to give the advice based on what I saw that’s all. If you insist and it isn’t deployed in a must needed matter or something like that, go ahead. Just as long as you acknowledge the risks it’s all good.
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I am self hosting Mailcow. It works pretty good and is easy to operate, manage and update. That said, I still have an email account with Tuta for which I pay for.
If there is ever a serious problem with my own mail server, it could take up to two weeks for me to fix it. So only things that would not suffer to much from such an outage are done on my self hosted email service.