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What types of services are you not willing to self-host?
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Standing up email might not be that hard... but it's much harder to ensure that your mail will actually be delivered successfully. Plus it's not a service you can typically afford to go down. Any emails you miss during that downtime are gone forever, whereas even if my Vaultwarden credential vault goes down I can access passwords from a device that has things cached at least while I fix things.
Plus the big providers just treat small mail servers with a lot more skepticism than they did 20 years ago.
The sending server will retry a few times, so you have at least a few days to bring it back. And if you prefer an additional fail-safe - adding a secondary MX somewhere else which will just store mails until the primary comes back is trivial.