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Your comment is perfet. Let me quote: "OK, then why is everyone saying it’s hard ? [...] Another reason is because it used to be hard a long time ago. People
by Izmaki 7y ago
Your comment is perfet. Let me quote:
"OK, then why is everyone saying it’s hard ?
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Another reason is because it used to be hard a long time ago. People got traumatized by how hard it was to not screw up and never reevaluated the situation. Some people today genuinely discourage other people from running their mail server, citing the very real difficulties they faced over a decade ago, far before some of today’s tools even existed."
- scarface74 7y agoHow does running my own mail server save me time, money, or give me capabilities that I don’t have by paying someone else? What other criteria should I use?
- ekianjo 7y ago> or give me capabilities that I don’t have by paying someone else? The same can be said "why should I grow my own veggies when I can buy them from the supermarket?" - The point is always, always, about Freedom.
- scarface74 7y agoWhen you eat home grown vegetables, the experience isn’t objectively worse. When you run your own mail server it is. If you were running your own restaurant and your home grown vegetables caused a worse customer experience would you do it? Running your own mail server which causes more of your mail to go to spam is worse than using a commercial provider.
- nocman 7y ago"When you eat home grown vegetables, the experience isn’t objectively worse. When you run your own mail server it is." ^ I both run my own mail server and use someone else's service for another purpose. My experience running my own mail server is objectively WAY BETTER than using the commercial provider (and I've been doing this for many years in multiple scenarios). Just because your experience (even if it is repeated) with certain technology goes one way, that doesn't make it universally true.
- scarface74 7y agoIt’s not “just my experience”. It’s practically a universal experience that the chance of emails sent from your mail server will be blocked or go into a spam folder a lot more frequently than using a commercial provider. Of all the questions I have to answer on technology decisions, why would I want to answer why did I choose to run my own bespoke mail server instead of spending a few dollars and making it someone else’s problem and so metaphorically chose IBM - ie “No one ever got fired for buying IBM”.
- ekianjo 7y agoYou noticed my point was not about any being better than the other. Growing veggies is a lot more work than buying them too. Again, Freedom.
- guerrilla 7y agoPrivacy is power. Lack of privacy is power too, just not yours.
- scarface74 7y agoIf you are looking for “privacy” from email - you’re looking in the wrong place. But even if your end is private - the other end probably isn’t.