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If your interest is email and using a web client, https://www.freedombox.org using the "pioneer box" is a cheap solution only using debian packages from "main" (i.e. free software only) to run your own email server and have a webmail (and also access it via IMAP or POP from icedove or any email client) with some but limited efforts.

The main limitation is that, by default, the storage is only on an SD card, so there is somehow limited storage capacity.

To use that, you need a public IP adress, a registered domain name, configure entries in the DNS server to refer to your public IP address, and, if your network connection is behing a NAT routeur, to redirect the ports for email to your "pioneer box" (or put in in the DMZ).

Once this is done, the most difficult is done, maintenance work is close to zero: occasionnally (on average 3 to 4 times a year), I loose control of my freedombox, then I unplug the power, put the SD card in my computer running trisquel, run "fsck.ext4" on on the /boot file system and "btrfs check" on the / filesystem, put it back in the "pioneer box" and put the power again.

Any email service with your received emails accessible via POP or IMAP and the possibiliy to send email via SMTP should be fine, no matter the provider (it means you have a large choice of free software email clients, like icedove, evolution, claws mail, sylpheed, etc).

Just remember:
- your provider can read all your unencrypted emails
- your provider may drop all your received email at any time, so store them on your computer
- if the domain of your address belongs to your provider and it stops the service, you will have to change email address

I have been using a xxx at free.fr address for more than 20 years, it can be obtained for free at https://subscribe.free.fr/accesgratuit/ but not sure you can apply with a physical address and phone number in Italy (assuming this is where you live). I don't expect that they will stop this service soon, but impossible to know.

I have registered a domain name with OVH since more than 10 years (it costs around 12 euros per year, not that expensive) and I paid a one time fee to get an infinite number of mailboxes (25 euros maybe?). Like any provider, they can stop any time, but I could reuse the exact same addresses with another provider.

With respect to running an email server: the "miracle" of freedombox is that I have zero competence about running an email server but yet I am now running one and it works fine.