Yeah, dunno who hounded them out. It’s not usually like that. I’d be reporting some accounts and blocking for that level of unkind.

Check your autorenewal failure alerts go somewhere you’ll react to.

Same. I’ve tried two, looking to upload transport and design videos. No answer, stuck after confirming email address.

Eventually, I’ll set up a host and a donations account, but it’s a faff I’ve not got time for right now.

That depends who’s hosting it. There’s few good reviews of email hosting out there at the moment.

Even if you self-host, other people’s mailservers still interact with it, unless you only chat with other users you host. And some of the big webmails variously get really pernickity about your DNS, DKIM and more, or they deploy some pretty obnoxious countermeasures against your server with little explanation. So I’d say it’s more often both than not, no matter what you do. If you think it’s not being a pain, there’s probably an unpleasant surprise in your server logs or coming soon!

It’s still often worth self-hosting, but that’s more big webmail really sucks, even ISPs often don’t set their mailservers up well and it’s often an early casualty of ISP managers looking for costs to cut.

Those apt commands are in a less-good order. It’s usually better to update apt, then upgrade the system.

I upgrade as soon as reasonably possible after the notification appears, if the system isn’t on auto-upgrade.