An exchange with Outlook-suffering colleagues reminded me of my 2011 rant which is sadly still relevant, "The Problem Isn't Email, It's Microsoft Exchange" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/the_problem_isnt_email_its_microsoft_exchange.html #email #outlook #exchange #uxfail #standardswhatstandards
manisha
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I self-host my own e-mail servers for ~25 years now. Just finished he migration to a new system today.
- OS: FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE
- MTA: Postfix 3.10
- IMAP: Dovecot 2.3
- Filter: Rspamd 3.14
I used Imapsync to migrate the content of my Mailboxes from the old to the new system. Worked absolutely fine.
Having the E-Mail Jail and the mailbox data on an encrypted ZFS dataset (AES256) that's manually unlocked with my passphrase after rebooting the system. Backups are done via ZFS send/recv to by backup server (-w for raw send to ensure, data is encrypted at rest)
- SPF: ✅
- DKIM Signing: ✅
- DMARC Reporting: ✅
- E-Mail delivery to major providers: ✅
- IPv6 working and actually being used: ✅
All working perfectly well. In about a week, I'll decomission the old Debian based system, that I used since 2017!
Già da qualche tempo, vi dicevo, sto cercando di staccarmi dalle tecnogie delle grandi multinazionali che stanno sempre più monopolizzando la tecnologia (anzi, potremmo dire oligarchizzando).
Ci sono da sempre ottimi motivi per farlo, ma gli eventi dell'anno scorso e di primi giorni del 2026 mi hanno spinto ad accelerare. Se prima era "solo" una questione di principi di liberta informatica e sovranità sui propri dati, ora ci so o motivi ben più forti: gli Stati Uniti sono diventati, e sono sempre di più, un nemico. Non uso virgolette, ne vorreid avveri sbagliarmi, ma sarebbe strano pensare che ci dice di volere invadere un Paese sovrano, un giorno sì e u o anche, possa definirsi qualcosa di meno di un nemico per il mondo libero.
Gli scenari sono tutti preoccupanti, e in nessuno di questi ha senso, secondo me, fischiettare facendo finta che nulla sia successo, e andare avanti come prima. Quello a cui posso rinunciare, lo rimuoverò dalla mia vita digitale.
Tra tutte le cose con cui WTO avendo a che fare nel - lungo - processo di migrazione verso servizi europei, non avrei mai pensato di avere grosse difficoltà con la posta elettronica.
È so quando ti metti attivamente a spostare tutti gli account, le newsletter, gli spid, ecc, che ti rendi conto di 2 cose: ti sei aperto milioni di account a destra e a manca, la metà dei quali inutili, e l'altra metà non riesci a distinguerla bene, nel rumore dello spam.
Alcuni servizi poi sono impossibili da modificare.
Ryanair ad esempio non prevede che la mail si possa cambiare. Idem alcuni operatori telefonici (very, lyca) . Devi contattare il supporto, e sperare che lo facciano.
Ryan mi dice di chiudere l'account e riaprirlo. Idem volotea.
Insomma, una cosa che sembrava semplice mi fa capire quanto siamo ancora legati ad una servizio che diamo. cosi scontato, come la mail.
E questo, Google e Microsoft lo sanno benissimo: all'account di posta anche loro legano un sacco di cose (YouTube, Onedrive) e li rendono quasi impossibili da chiudere.
Vediamo chi vince. 😊
phoenix🐧🏕🏞🚀🍝
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Now that the orange toddler is behaving more erratically every day, more and more people are finding their way to decent.email.
Say goodbye to American ’big tech' and join this Dutch email service for a positive way to communicate!
I self-host my own e-mail servers for ~25 years now. Just finished he migration to a new system today.
- OS: FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE
- MTA: Postfix 3.10
- IMAP: Dovecot 2.3
- Filter: Rspamd 3.14
I used Imapsync to migrate the content of my Mailboxes from the old to the new system. Worked absolutely fine.
Having the E-Mail Jail and the mailbox data on an encrypted ZFS dataset (AES256) that's manually unlocked with my passphrase after rebooting the system. Backups are done via ZFS send/recv to by backup server (-w for raw send to ensure, data is encrypted at rest)
- SPF: ✅
- DKIM Signing: ✅
- DMARC Reporting: ✅
- E-Mail delivery to major providers: ✅
- IPv6 working and actually being used: ✅
All working perfectly well. In about a week, I'll decomission the old Debian based system, that I used since 2017!
Now that the orange toddler is behaving more erratically every day, more and more people are finding their way to decent.email.
Say goodbye to American ’big tech' and join this Dutch email service for a positive way to communicate!
Florian 'floe' Echtler
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An obvious remark.
In the world of one-click LLM proofreads, I immediately value your post/blog/comment/email if you used your brain to write it.
There are signs that and I'm sure we can all pick those writing styles intuitively now. I can't believe this but it is almost a sign of respect in 2026 that the person replying to you used their own thoughts. It doesn't matter if you write perfect text with no grammatical mistakes, because it is human. Please don't let this practice die. Anyone else feel this way?
#noai #llm #writing #reading #books #email #enshittification
Labels can complicate the migration away from Gmail, especially if the receiving service doesn't provide specific import tools. This post describes a way of handling such a case.
https://www.locked.de/how-to-migrate-gmail-to-another-provider-without-breaking-the-mail-history
#Email #Sysadmin #Hivemind, brainstorm with me the best way to achieve per-client passwords with #saslauthd!
The ultimate goal is to replicate Fastmail’s per-app IMAP and SMTP passwords, where the same login user can successfully authenticate with a list of passwords that I’ll manage externally.
I’m already using saslauthd in ldap mode, but LDAP tends to hold as fundamental that a user has only one password. saslauthd also has pam mode, but PAM (and especially the PAM MySQL and Postgres modules) also barf if your database query returns more than one row. getpwent and kerberos modes I can’t see being much use.
What about the rimap mode? Do I want to write a dummy IMAP server that backs onto a database for auth? Yuck, but all the other options seem yucker.
Maloney clause: I’ve done a lot of reading of specs and source already, so you’re unlikely to help if you’re just going to do a web search. Paste chatbot slop at me to get blocked.
An obvious remark.
In the world of one-click LLM proofreads, I immediately value your post/blog/comment/email if you used your brain to write it.
There are signs that and I'm sure we can all pick those writing styles intuitively now. I can't believe this but it is almost a sign of respect in 2026 that the person replying to you used their own thoughts. It doesn't matter if you write perfect text with no grammatical mistakes, because it is human. Please don't let this practice die. Anyone else feel this way?
#noai #llm #writing #reading #books #email #enshittification
Neville Park
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Glad to see people are writing to me about this interview I had with @buttondown https://buttondown.com/blog/robert-kingett #Email #Author #Authors
Glad to see people are writing to me about this interview I had with @buttondown https://buttondown.com/blog/robert-kingett #Email #Author #Authors
Je viens de me souvenir que ma toute première boîte mail (en hotmail.fr) avait un espace de stockage totale de 25 Mo.
Quelque-part, c'était le bon temps : celui où on pouvait engueuler les gens parce-qu'ils faisaient vraiment chier avec leurs pièces jointes et leurs courriels en HTML qui bloquaient la boîte mail en deux semaines.
Chip Butty
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Bichon: A lightweight, high-performance Rust email archiver with WebUI
https://github.com/rustmailer/bichon
#HackerNews #Bichon #Rust #Email #Archiver #WebUI #Lightweight #HighPerformance
Quixoticgeek
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