Current status: cup of tea in the garden. Reading a 2007 book I bought in 2012, about some software first released in 1995 handling a 1981 protocol that I'm going to use as the cornerstone of my teeny tiny SaaS in 2024.
May we all have such a long-term effect on the world!
Encouraging people to learn how to #selfhost#email is nice idea. Lots to be learnt there.
Pointing them to postfix is what you do if you want them to suffer.
Not sure why more folks don't use #opensmtpd, which has a clear and well documented configuration format. Actually, the whole thing is really well documented and a pleasure to set up.
Perhaps it's simply less well know, but at this point it's not "new" any more.
@davidbisset it will be interesting to see what happens after they start getting millions of bounces a day. like say if a bunch of people used this just to get an account started on a website they wanted to be anonymous on. but the site doesn't know it was ultra transient and continues to send notifications to it.
If you are trying to #degoogle your life, be aware that one of the unpleasant side effects is that a shit ton of people will not be able to receive #email from you. I've been on an email address handled by my shared server provider for like 15 years now, and I can attest that #google and #yahoo are both pretty bad for blocking anything from a #domain outside the big providers.
@max Good question. I've been using this hosting place since college. I didn't even touch a setting until recently to activate one of those disguised as some kind of domain validation.
I freely admit that I know fuck all about email.
But I don't think it should really be that hard. The "big guys" should be able to detect good mail. And the "small guys" should be able to accept email not originating from the "big guys". Security through whitelist, I guess lol. :big_brain:
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Here is yet another example as a reminder:
If your bank "contacts you" DO NOTHING until you have phoned your bank to check on the validity of the contact.