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The Death of Decentralized Email (blog.lopp.net)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Interesting history and analysis of SMTP's history. How can we prevent fedi and other open protocols from suffering the same fates?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I'm going to add "bullshit" to the first. I've gone 2 decades running a few email domains on my home servers, on 3 different ISPs. Its not rocket surgery.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

All the ISPs I've used block the relevant ports.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I've been running one with a dozen or more users on bare metal at home for the last two years. A little bit of spam but otherwise fine. No deliverability issues or anything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Same here minus about 15 years

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Same here. Static IP though. I did set up another experiment with a haproxy vps just to see if I could do it if I lost my static IP, worked perfectly done that way too.

Fail2ban, pfblocker, and soamassassin work great.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ive been using DDNS :p

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

My sending got blocked from dynamic IPs, maybe things have changed though