Post #1191117
2026-04-13 06:46 UTC
@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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@joacim@mastodon.melin.org 2026-04-13 09:37
@dave @helge @Paul_Taylor I still run my email server too for family and some friends but email as a whole is something I try to get rid of in my life as it has become more or less unusable and mostly an annoyance.
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@d1@autistics.life 2026-04-13 13:45
@dave @helge @Paul_Taylor it's non-deterministic in some cases, even when all the right DNS voodoo is performed (SPF, DKIM, DMARC, DNSSEC and full IPv6 support with rDNS). Please don't make out that it's deterministically reliable *for everyone* with their self-hosted domains, and it's just that they haven't done the right DNS rituals.