RockingGoodNite

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by RockingGoodNite 4y ago
Google "is email delivery guaranteed", it isn't.
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by RockingGoodNite 4y ago
Wow that is a wonderful link, they really seem to be improving on interacting with the public in these matters.
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by RockingGoodNite 4y ago
"Wouldn't surprise me if Linode were entirely blocked." I'd be very surprised. I hosted email on Linode for years without issue.
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by RockingGoodNite 4y ago
File a complaint request, they will fix it, they did for me.
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by RockingGoodNite 4y ago
Public health is not at stake. I want to cook my own damn email burger thank you.
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by RockingGoodNite 4y ago
To colinsane's point, I don't want to be a restaurant, I want to cook my burger at home. A lot of us do. You're OK with the Hostdime restaurant. I'm OK cooking my own burger. A lot of us are and we don't want to los
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by RockingGoodNite 4y ago
Agreed, well written counterpoints.
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by RockingGoodNite 4y ago
My server uses encrypted connections and my own certificate. If I send an email to a family member on my server, no one on the Internet can read its contents. If I add a recipient and FAANG or Microsoft then yes it wouldn't matter. If
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by RockingGoodNite 4y ago
Some of us use Wireguard or OpenVPN to host where we want and use a static cheap or free (like Cloudflare) public point of presence IP.
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by RockingGoodNite 4y ago
Agreed. Salient.
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by RockingGoodNite 4y ago
Incorrect.
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by RockingGoodNite 4y ago
Agreed.
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by RockingGoodNite 4y ago
I can pick any ISP today, including Dreamhost, and have clean email reputation and sending ability with FAANG and Microsoft in less than 30 days.
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by RockingGoodNite 4y ago
No...it isn't the only sane choice. If it works for you, great. Forunately for Internet freedom, there many of us small timers left who have no issues hosting our own email.
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by RockingGoodNite 4y ago
Agreed.
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by RockingGoodNite 4y ago
Cryptocurrency is a pyramid scheme and even if it weren't, the technology crushes itself under its own weight.
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by RockingGoodNite 4y ago
I recommend people do it themselves or not at all, these are my tools: postfix/dovecot/mysql/opendkim/opendmarc.
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by RockingGoodNite 4y ago
I've run my email server in VM's at a variety of ISP's like GoDaddy, Linode and AWS Lightsail and never had an issue, well once when Microsoft banned a group of IP's in a drag net. I filed a request with them and they fi
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by RockingGoodNite 4y ago
What do I do? I got rid of Spamassassin after being challenged by someone on HN or Reddit, can't recall which. Spamassassin is pretty effective but was consuming too much of my time. So I stopped. I analyzed mail for a few weeks to loo
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by RockingGoodNite 4y ago
This was the first thing in Google so caveat emptor: https://www.templafy.com/blog/how-many-emails-are-sent-every... . Now for the quote: "Globally, as of 2019, a staggering 293. 6 billion emails were sent each day
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by RockingGoodNite 4y ago
No, we don't need to do this because more laws will be piled on top and only FAANG will have the lawyers and people required to comply with those laws, forcing more control of the Internet out of our hands, the people, and resting cont
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by RockingGoodNite 4y ago
Are you referring to this? http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#smtpd_tls_security_le... " encrypt Mandatory TLS encryption: announce STARTTLS support to remote SMTP clients, and require that clients use TLS encrypti
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by RockingGoodNite 4y ago
The same philosophy could be applied to retail and other areas, forget small time hospitals, let the U. S. Government take care of your health.
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by RockingGoodNite 4y ago
I've hosted for several decades as well and intend to continue to exercise my right to do so. Whenever one of these monthly or bi-monthly doom and gloom woe is me posts shows up on HN; I wonder if there are any other motivations behind