An interesting article from Gilles Chehade, author of OpenSMTPD, from 2019.
“Self-hosting mail is not HARD but requires WORK, which are two different things.”
I ran mail servers for more than 10 years, much of that time in Asia, where we had to deal with a significant amount of spam. It's also been more than 10 years since I last managed one. Not because I don't want to, but simply because I haven't had the opportunity since then. And running a mail server just for myself doesn't make much sense to me.
Still worth reading today.
https://poolp.org/posts/2019-08-30/you-should-not-run-your-mail-server-because-mail-is-hard/
#email #opensmtpd #sendmail #postfix
“Self-hosting mail is not HARD but requires WORK, which are two different things.”
I ran mail servers for more than 10 years, much of that time in Asia, where we had to deal with a significant amount of spam. It's also been more than 10 years since I last managed one. Not because I don't want to, but simply because I haven't had the opportunity since then. And running a mail server just for myself doesn't make much sense to me.
Still worth reading today.
https://poolp.org/posts/2019-08-30/you-should-not-run-your-mail-server-because-mail-is-hard/
#email #opensmtpd #sendmail #postfix