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I often wonder, with my computer on all the time, why do I need an email service at all? Just send me the damned email. Straight to my computer. Point to point.
by JoeAltmaier 3y ago
I often wonder, with my computer on all the time, why do I need an email service at all? Just send me the damned email. Straight to my computer. Point to point.
- meristohm 3y agoI was just thinking about this yesterday, when considering setting up Syncthing or just using Warpinator. There's a small number of people I email regularly, and at least one of them might be interested in a version controlled text file or some other form of letter-writing that doesn't involve email and which is faster than the USPS (handwritten letters still have their place, though).
- asim 3y agoIs it even email? It's just messages right. You want messages to be sent directly to you.
- JoeAltmaier 3y agoI want a message that I can receive when I'm not there and read later. Sent to my email address. Email. The code for an email server is trivially hosted on my computer these days. It seems odd from on point of view that we all continued using public servers once that happened.
- asim 3y agoThat makes sense. It's quite easily doable but you need sort of a programmatic mailbox. I don't think it necessarily needs to be direct to email but email as identity. Most people still use a well known hosting provider for email. I'm just assuming it's like simple text messages you want forwarded to a local inbox.
- LinuxBender 3y agoAssuming your ISP does not block port 25 and you are not behind CG-NAT you could do that. Point the MX of your domain to your IP and run a mail server at home. Postfix+Dovecot is one example.
- KomoD 3y agoMost do block port 25 though, sadly, and residential IPs tend to be on blocklists too
- LinuxBender 3y agoYeah outbound at least. Inbound often works so that would address receiving the email locally. One would still have to relay through a paid service likely for sending.