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I Believe That It's Important For All of Us to Understand What 'Decentralization' Truly Means. Please, Let's Talk About That (beehaw.org)

submitted 3 weeks ago by remington@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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Recently, I've been learning more about this subject. Today I came across the Decentralization Scoring System and it slapped me across the face.

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[–] prof@infosec.pub 28 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Everyone that thinks self hosting E-Mail is easy, I urge you to run your own mailserver and see how many mails actually reach their targets.

Your mailserver won't be trusted by anyone, which makes your email always be delivered as spam, if they don't get blocked outright.

Otherwise this scoring system seems to be quite alright. Even though it could use some more detail and citing some sources for the numbers would be great.

[–] pcouy@lemmy.pierre-couy.fr 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Self hosting emails is a pain, but I've been doing it for almost 2 years and I do not have any of these issues. I'm not an expert either, I just thoroughly followed a tutorial to properly configure dmarc, dkim and everything else and everything just works (I just hope I'm not jinxing it by writing this :D )

[–] prof@infosec.pub 13 points 3 weeks ago

Glad it worked out for you!

But it's definitely one of the deadly sins of selfhosting.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

How many users are you supporting? And how frequently do they complain about spam, delivery issues, and that sending that last email with a 5G attachment keeps failing...

[–] pineapplepizza@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

I can't send a 20mb attachment with my email.

I appreciate this is admin configuration issue.

[–] dan@upvote.au 4 points 2 weeks ago

I've been self hosting my email for a long time, but I use an outbound SMTP relay so I don't have to deal with IP reputation. The more interesting part to self-host is the receiving part, not the sending part.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 3 weeks ago

Nobody thinks self hosting email is easy. Wtf.