WTF! No sign up or anything! Just a fucking email telling me I'm using it?
Fuck you Google!
I remember distinctly looking for a picture for a shit post, then I magically subscribed to having my data at their disposal? What the ever living fuck. Google will regret this move.
I'm in the middle of setting up a docker mailserver for this purpose. There's a ton of levers to pull on that thing, but I'm getting thru it. The main thing is to get an account elsewhere that I can do SMTP or IMAP or pop3. Like many others point out, you don't want to create a mail server. What I do want is fetchmail accessible from all my devices that takes emails from any source and keeps them under my control...because it's my mail.