Post #1191085

2026-04-12 21:04 UTC

@Paul_Taylor I run a self hosted mail server. It's kinda hard to get right, but the requirements seem absolutely reasonable and you can fulfil them. I don't really see them abusing their market power there ... just yet. (I think they are just waiting for email to die the natural death)

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@atax1a@infosec.exchange 2026-04-12 21:12

@helge @Paul_Taylor no, they're actively taking steps to strangle it. we fulfil the requirements but none of our mail gets through because we aren't big enough to register any reputation in their system.

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@dave@europhiles.uk 2026-04-13 06:46

@helge @Paul_Taylor I agree it's still possible to run your own mail server. It's got harder over the 25 years I've been doing it for... I now have SPF, DKIM, DMARC, DNSSEC and full IPv6 support with rDNS, and I'm just an enthusiastic #HomeLab user with a domestic IP address. As far as I'm aware, my emails are getting delivered to people's inboxes.

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@katzenjens@social.tchncs.de 2026-04-13 12:58

@helge @Paul_Taylor As long as the ip range from your provider is not on any blacklist on google or ms servers, you are in luck. But that can change anytime. And neither you or your provider can do anything about it. But hearing, that universities don't use their own servers makes my blood boil.

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@4zv4l@gts.kendell.lexiz.xyz 2026-04-14 12:03

@helge @Paul_Taylor I am running stalwart (https://github.com/stalwartlabs/stalwart) on my server and so far it works ok and is quite simple to setup

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