• Electricd@lemmybefree.net
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        3 months ago

        Wtf? Since when is Gmail an obligation? I know a lot of people who don’t own one, and use other providers

        And apart from that, you can have a preferred mail host while still having an old Gmail. Gmail used to scan emails and I believe I have heard they’re starting again for their IA thing

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      3 months ago

      SPF, DKIM, and DMARC all make it near impossible to host your own email server. Mail will simply get lost.

      Yes, we live in an age where email only works properly if you use a service from a large entity using weird badly-defined email security protocols that they invented.

      This is the reality.

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        3 months ago

        I host my own mail server with mailcow and it’s easier than ever

        Long gone are the days of manually configuring postfix

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          3 months ago

          mailcow seems to be pretty nice, thanks for introducing me to this. I have to admit that the 800MB RAM minimum requirement makes my eyes water slightly.

          Still, nothing a Pi can’t handle

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            3 months ago

            You’re welcome! I also heard about another project which is much simpler but I can’t remember its name. At least mailcow makes it easy to configure the different fields and has a nice web client

            Yea, mailcow does require a bit too much but it’s well made and you can disable features to reduce RAM usage

            I imagine 800MB is without the antivirus checking and search improvements