Just received an email from my mail server administrator. They sent me a link to change my password because it's 'insecure'.
My mail admin is so efficient...
...hey, wait a minute... I AM my mail administrator! 🤦♂️
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@stefano send a polite email to yourself, respond by asking a lot (and mostly unrelated) of questions...
You know, the combination of the "have you tried to turn it off and on again?" admin and the standard italian 🇮🇹 bureaucracy
@stefano I’m always getting these or variants of them. Even though I don’t run my own mail server as such (i.e. the hardware is not mine) I do control all my own email/mailboxes at an external hosting provider, so the occasional one that doesn’t get caught by the server side or client side spam filters doesn’t do much more than provoke an eye-roll and the occasional muttered “Yeah…right…”
@stefano I've received those emails too and they make me laugh hysterically it loud.
Running my own email server since 2009.
Those are boring. My mail admin contacts me to renew and get a free 25GB space upgra... WAIT A MINUTE.
Why would I need an additional 25GB while I already have 1.75TB-ish of free space available to me? I like the thinking of my mail admin though.
@stefano the mail server administrator is not supposed to know your password. This rule apparently has one exception. The self hosting exception.
Trust yourself!
I got it too, pointing at some .xyz domain. Why do we keep sending these to ourselves? 😉
@parseword.bsky.social ahah I don't know. But it seems we keep doing it! 😆
You’re not really your own administrator if your administrator is emailing you.
@stefano Aha. the funniest thing is to receive something like "Andre, your mail account will expire in two days". Like, WAT? I'm paying for the hosting, I created this account myself 😂
@menelion true. "Hey, your mailbox is about to expire! Click here to extend".
Well...the only extension I can do is...zfs quota extension 🙂
@stefano What do you use as mail server, btw? And how do you get through Gmail, for example, policies? I mean, usually self-hosters complain that their emails always land in spam at others' boxes.
@menelion I've been self hosting mail almost forever (since 2001, if I'm not wrong) and updated the configuration to make sure it will pass through those mail filters. I've had problems with Microsoft in the past, rarely with Google or others.
I'm using an implementation similar to the one I've described here: https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/03/08/make-your-own-email-server-freebsd-opensmptd-rspamd-dovecot-part1/
@stefano BUT I AM THE SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR!
