Alas, as cam.ac.uk prepares for the final shutdown of Hermes — their quarter century old Unix mail facility used by members great and small, from telnet to pray

Alas, as cam.ac.uk prepares for the final shutdown of Hermes — their quarter century old Unix mail facility used by members great and small, from telnet to prayer and replaced by Microsoft Outlook on 12/31 — the timing of this post could not be more prescient. Another onprem service formerly run by experts shutters its doors. In their halcyon days they wrote Exim. You can’t even forward to gmail because the current sysadmin team have IPv6 set up without PTRs, causing gmail to 500 one in every N deliveries. I imagines GOOG and the University of Cambridge locked in an endless battle of “don’t you know who I am”, and meanwhile the dons et al shuffle into the abyss of outlook.com penury. What would ‘fanf2 do?