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Ask HN: What is your email setup?
After seeing a past HN thread where someone lost access to their Gmail account, I am scared. I currently just use Gmail with no backup. Wondering if there are good suggestions on building a "real-world faults" tolerant email service.
- Atg4V 9y agoI have an email specifically for account recovery and alerts on any changes to my other email accounts. All except the recovery email have two factor. The recovery email also has a max length password.
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- LinuxBender 9y agoI point MX for my domains to a VM. Postfix dumps everything to a text file. Most would use Dovecot but I'm too lazy and dont care. To read my mail, I use strings -a /var/spool/mail/nobody | more When I am done reading my mail, I use > /var/spool/mail/nobody