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I don't want to discourage your enthusiasm but please think carefully about this. It might be a fun project now but let me say a few things. What's going to h

I don't want to discourage your enthusiasm but please think carefully about this. It might be a fun project now but let me say a few things. What's going to happen in a year or two when you lose interest or get too busy with other things? I'm sure you give no guarantees so you have no real obligation but nobody likes to disappoint people. What's going to happen when something stops working while you're away for a long weekend and someone foolish enough to use this as their primary email address is waiting for something important? I've done vaguely similar things on a small scale for friends but I will never host mailboxes again. They are a PITA. They tend to grow. Some IMAP implementations can be heavy on resources. Migration can be a pain if you want to move to another server. I'll happily to do email forwarding for friends at a hobby level but not be responsible for storing mail. It's just not worth the trouble. Free is not sustainable if it gets popular. With that out the way, welcome to ham radio. I've been a ham since I was 14 and that was over 50 years ago :) My interest and activity level have fluctuated over the years but I still do some digital modes on HF and like to listen around with an SDR.

kq4gvp 3y ago
You’re totally right. Maintaining this service will be a toll and in a few years, I may not be interested in this. My current plan is if I ever do have to shut down email.radio, I’ll have the servers up for at least an extra year, then allow people to fetch their data for a couple of extra years. Currently, I’m trying to get email.radio into a ‘low-maintenance’ stage. Meaning, I won’t need to login to the host server practically ever, only to update the mailcow instance. I have plans to keep this sustained for quite a while, as I would like someone to place on my resume, lol.

kq4gvp 3y ago

You’re totally right. Maintaining this service will be a toll and in a few years, I may not be interested in this. My current plan is if I ever do have to shut down email.radio, I’ll have the servers up for at least an extra year, then allow people to fetch their data for a couple of extra years. Currently, I’m trying to get email.radio into a ‘low-maintenance’ stage. Meaning, I won’t need to login to the host server practically ever, only to update the mailcow instance. I have plans to keep this sustained for quite a while, as I would like someone to place on my resume, lol.