Post #43627
2025-12-09 01:03 UTC
Replies (27)
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@s@piefed.world 2025-12-09 01:26
Your slop-pooping machine is bad at text parallax and it still looks gross
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@salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 2025-12-09 01:27
True story. Email is one of the last things I’d try to host myself.
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@dan@upvote.au 2025-12-09 01:27
I self-host my emails, but use an SMTP relay for sending. IMO, the interesting part of self hosting email is the storage
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@Zanathos@lemmy.world 2025-12-09 01:29
Mailcow internal on Debian VM. SMTP2Go free external relay. Have had the occasional issue after an upgrade or reboot can’t find my LetsEncrypt cert and will bork the system until I manually fix it. Perhaps my latest script update finally resolved that. Otherwise, not that bad. Been running my own email for about 5 years or so. I don’t sign up for many outside services with it. It’s mainly for internal alerting or testing purposes but still works very well.
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@_stranger_@lemmy.world 2025-12-09 01:44
that third one killed it for me. I hate what the Internet has become. We need to setup a second Internet that somehow can’t be monetized.
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@Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 2025-12-09 01:46
I stopped hosting my own email servers many years ago, even when I was being paid for it. Any time anyone mentions DKIM or yahoo throttling or anything of that nature I get a thousand yard stare and and start to hyperventilate. I’m sure it easier when you aren’t sending 5 million messages a month, but who needs the headache.
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@knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works 2025-12-09 03:45
I still self host. Nothing beats mimedefang on sendmail to this day.
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@rektstarsceosu@lemmy.zip 2025-12-09 04:38
ai image… with positive vote??? on myfediverse??? what a shame
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@gkaklas@lemmy.zip 2025-12-09 04:40
lemmy.zip/comment/19712446 Reminder of this: poolp.org/…/you-should-not-run-your-mail-server-b… And that mailu.io (and other similar projects) makes self-hosting email almost trivial 😁 (at least for people that can run a pre-configured docker-compose.yml and buy their domain etc)
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@AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 2025-12-09 04:43
Tis y I onl rec. SimpleX or Cwtç: instant addr gen, & disposable acc.s.
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@Uri@infosec.pub 2025-12-09 05:09
Al slop
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@ikidd@lemmy.world 2025-12-09 05:44
I do fine.
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@Triumph@fedia.io 2025-12-09 06:14
Let me know if you need on prem Exchange. I got you covered.
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@ZILtoid1991__dup_9952@lemmy.world 2025-12-09 06:25
AI slop yet again!
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@smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2025-12-09 06:53
I’ve actually been having a great time with simple-nixos-mailserver. Running with a dedicated ipv4 at a highly reputable hoster, to my knowledge, I haven’t landed in a spam folder yet!
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@truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 2025-12-09 06:55
Been self hosting mail for over a decade and its never been easier thanks to stalwart. The IP block list thing is true though, but mostly you request removal once from Microsoft and spamhaus and that’s it.
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@Johanno@feddit.org 2025-12-09 10:07
Why don’t selfhost? Reliability. My server is down sometimes. Sometimes days. No server no email.
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@sunstoned@lemmus.org 2025-12-09 14:30
Personally I use addy.io (previously anonaddy). Self-hostable and an easy way to get and control your own email @
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@Forester@pawb.social 2025-12-09 16:24
This is an amusing thread for me as my day job used to be unfucking postfix and exim servers daily for a fleet of vps and dedi boxes.
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@InFerNo@lemmy.ml 2025-12-09 16:38
Self hosting for years and have none of these issues, but I’m going to migrate soon and will probably be able to use this as a checklist 😐
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@Rooty@lemmy.world 2025-12-09 20:21
Given the amount of spam selfhosting your email sounds like the 7th circle of hell. Media servers should be enough, thankyouverymuch
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@SirMaple__@lemmy.ca 2025-12-10 00:05
It is great. Mailcow protected by crowdsec, using SMTP2GO as outbound relay. No issues. I even have Addy.io running without issues.
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@cals11@programming.dev 2025-12-10 02:42
I sorta self host my email. Technically aws hosts my email but I’ve a local postfix and dovecot to serve devices. That simplifies ip address reputation, dkim, spf, etc. It also provides a backstop if my homelab goes down as messages buffer to s3. I pay a few cents per 1k messages, which effectively means zero.
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@quoll@lemmy.sdf.org 2025-12-10 03:29
highly recommend mailinabox.email for setting up and and ticking every compliance box. dmarc, spf etc unfortunately you can be the best, most compliant host on the planet with the with a cleanest of IP’s… google is still going to randomly and silently drop your email to different email addresses. so its pretty much completely untenable for non hobby project. fuck google so fucking hard
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@motruck@lemmy.zip 2025-12-10 04:11
Hosting email is bad because the few companies everyone tells everyone to use run email. It is fine if hosting email isn’t for you but discouraging others to not try is exactly how we lose ground ona completely open protocol. Everyone who is willing should host email. There are “distros” like mailinabox and mailcow that make it very easy. The more folks that host it the more the larger hosts will have to start to be more of a tram player.
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@Uri@infosec.pub 2025-12-10 17:16
@xia@lemmy.sdf.org guess i’ll block this person, most of their posts are slop
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@Fontasia@feddit.nl 2025-12-11 05:38
“Babe, BABE, listen to me! I don’t care about what your friends say, Google dress it up like it’s something magical, but it’s just IMAP under the hood. That Let’s Encrypt cert is better than anything VeriSign will sell you. Now let’s review your subscribed folders again, I assure you, you saw that college acceptance letter and filed it and filed it and it’s your own fault for having client side rules.”