3 ms·

I read those comments about maintenance and "fucking around" in HN quite often and it keeps me wondering what are those people "fucking around" with. Running m

I read those comments about maintenance and "fucking around" in HN quite often and it keeps me wondering what are those people "fucking around" with. Running my own mail server for 25+ years. 50+ domains, quite a number of messages daily. Most recent maintenance was few years ago caused by Apple phasing out procedure for push certificate generation (I use apple push for mail delivery). e-mail has a learning curve for sure, but once everything is set up properly, there is no maintenance whatsoever, if you know what you are doing.

baz00 3y ago
Well last time I had to fuck around was because the entire IP ranged ended up on an RBL and I couldn't deliver to half the people I needed to. Oh and then there was that time that Yahoo did its thing and asks you to fill in a web form to continue delivering to them, the URL of which is neatly hidden in an SMTP response message. If you get that form wrong or they don't like the answers they will just ignore you for 6 months.