Great comment. As for programmers fearing servers: all the mail servers I've tried are almost incredibly byzantine, making them stressful to configure and hard

Great comment. As for programmers fearing servers: all the mail servers I've tried are almost incredibly byzantine, making them stressful to configure and hard to understand. My brother got tired of this and wrote a functioning and mostly conformant SMTP server in less than 50 lines of bash (using djb's tcpserver and delivering to maildrop). As far as I'm concerned, all the configuration I can ever imagine needing for a simple SMTP server could be specified with like max 3 command line switches. So yeah, I think it is a somewhat rational fear, and I don't understand why everything seems so amazingly complex.