Re: Solution to "pathetic email complaints"
On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 07:14:01PM +0300, Reco wrote:
So it boils down to "MTA needs care on a regular basis" and "some
blacklist can add your MTA for no good reason". First one is universal
(applies to any Internet-facing service), second one can be beat with a
creative use of hosting. Also, https://mxtoolbox.com. A non-free
service, but a useful one.
Way to oversimplify, and "creative use of hosting" basically means "hope
and pray". It's also not actually true that there's hosting magic which
makes you immune to blacklist stupidity unless your hosting is gmail or
something equally too large to block.
With all it's disadvantages, SMTP is one of the few examples of
successful federated (i.e. - non-centralized) form of Internet
communications. The other ones are slowly dying IRC and dead XMPP.
So I disagree. They can put all the fancy additions (like SPF, DMARC and
DANE) to it, but SMTP has a strong chance to outlive a current
generation.
We can agree to disagree. I think like the regular old telephone, people
will suddenly realize that as a communication tool the noise is
outweighing the signal and drop it. In my experience with the younger
generation, they already don't consider email a primary means of
communication except within a closed environment like a school. In
business the trend is increasingly toward outsourcing email to a large
cloud provider (e.g., MS/outlook) so a future in which businesses mainly
communicate between a small number of very large providers is not all
that remote.
I somehow doubt that Debian project membership requires to be an expert
in any MTA, or to have any system administration skills for that matter.
In another words, of course it's not normal, but is something that's to
be expected.
So which is it? A small email domain isn't a big deal to manage or it is?
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