Re: webmail and email from command line
On Mon 19/Aug/2019 18:05:57 +0200 Celejar wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Aug 2019 17:21:40 +0200
> <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 10:06:33AM -0400, Celejar wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> I'd love to run my own mail stack, and I think I could handle the
>>> software deployment reasonably well, but from everything I've read,
>>> the headaches required to make sure that major mail operators will
>>> actually accept my mail are more than I have time or patience for:
>>
>> It's not /that/ bad. I'm doing it myself, and I'm a C programmer.
>> As a sysad I'm a catastrophe :-)
>
> As I've explained, I'm not scared of the basic software configuration
> and deployment. I have no patience, however, for constant monitoring to
> make sure I stay off blacklists, and dealing with all sorts of
> unspecified rules and conditions established by various organizations
> for them to accept my mail.
The most difficult thing is obtaining an suitable Internet connection.
As an alternative, someone upstream suggested a hosting site. I keep
forgetting how that would be better than Google. I get quite a few
thank-you messages every day from DigitalOcean Security, Google Cloud
Platform, Amazon EC2, and similar providers to whom my server sends
abuse complaints automatically. Sometimes I get notifications that
the relevant account was stroked. What does go wrong there?
For one thing, among the eight support tools listed in the cited Ars
Technica howto there's no firewall. Having the server /in the office/
and working at its console makes it much easier to see what's going
on. I think that's what everybody should be doing. It is a social
abuse that server connections cost so much more than residential ones,
and if I were a conspiracy theorist I would point my finger there.
Best
Ale
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