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i would not laugh. think it’s impressive and must eat a lot of time

• ipaddr 5y ago
  Setting up dovecot, postfix to receive emails is a fun few hours that have continued to work forever. Sending mail to gmail requires setting up extra processes that most times won't work anyways. Sending mail from an unknown ip is like sending it from a blacklisted address. To avoid this I use my isp to send the mail. Setup time including thunderbird settings is under an 2 hours for many.
• edoceo 5y ago
  Not really. Once Postfix, Dovecot, DNS stuff, DKIM, it "just works". I did lose some time, three years ago fiddling with spamassaaain vs rspamd but mail, after the not-really-that-hard-at-all setup. I mean, folk handle way more complex stuff (k8s) but balk at a bit of time on this old, boring, stable set-it-and-forget-it self-hosted wonder.
• jjav 5y ago
  > i would not laugh. think it’s impressive and must eat a lot of time It does not. I set up my latest/current email hosting in about 2011. Very minimal work on it since then. There's really nothing to do once it's working. Only work I can think of I've spent on it since 2011 is: regular OS updates (which take basically no time), added SPF and later DKIM support, added Let's Encrypt cert. That's it in ten years.