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It's already possible for everybody to host his own mail server. But we choose to let Google host all our conversations. So the problem is more social.
by huuu 10y ago
It's already possible for everybody to host his own mail server. But we choose to let Google host all our conversations. So the problem is more social.
- DougWebb 10y agoSure, it's possible to host your own mail server, except that you need to host it in a place that isn't port-filtered (eg: not on most residential ISP connections), and if you want anyone to be able to receive your emails you need to make sure you're not blacklisted-by-default by the big spam filtering engines. (eg: DNS settings, but also monitoring successful delivery rates and working with spam filter operators to determine why your emails get flagged and trashed.)
- huuu 10y agoYou are still describing a social problem.
- duncanawoods 10y agoSocial problems become technical problems. Spam, unauthorised access, malware, spoofing identities, dos etc. would not be problems if we all just acted cool but instead solutions become minimum technical requirements for the next version.