Judging by the replies, it seems to be a combination of preferring webmail and having poor ISPs.
Personally, I have run my own email server for several years now and have found this to require almost no maintenance. On the server side I use Postfix and Dovecot on Debian, and on the client side I use Thunderbird. For security, I only allow local IMAP connections and tunnel IMAP and SMTP from my laptop over SSH tunnels set up when I log in, and the server only accepts public key authorisation for SSH.
IMAP means I get any email within seconds and Thunderbird automatically sifts away 95% of what little spam I receive. The server is under my desk and the only downtime I have is for kernel upgrades and problems on the ISP end, which are both rare.
Personally, I have run my own email server for several years now and have found this to require almost no maintenance. On the server side I use Postfix and Dovecot on Debian, and on the client side I use Thunderbird. For security, I only allow local IMAP connections and tunnel IMAP and SMTP from my laptop over SSH tunnels set up when I log in, and the server only accepts public key authorisation for SSH.
IMAP means I get any email within seconds and Thunderbird automatically sifts away 95% of what little spam I receive. The server is under my desk and the only downtime I have is for kernel upgrades and problems on the ISP end, which are both rare.