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[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems -3 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Setting up an email server is really straightforward with simple-nixos-mailserver, highly recommend. No idea how likely you are to be classified as spam though from a new domain

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

i host my mail services for the last twenty seven years, and yeah, you're talking shit. starting the smtp daemon is not the same as managing mail server.

[–] self@awful.systems 11 points 3 months ago

i host my mail services for the last twenty seven years

this is one of the circles of hell Dante didn’t comprehend when he wrote Inferno

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago

coming up on 18y on mine. my postfix config is almost of legal drinking age in a lot of countries.

modern email ecosystem is a fucking mess.

[–] flowerysong@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago

I host my own email and for my day job I run an institutional email system that handles ~50 million messages per week. I can't recommend hosting email at either end of that scale (or anywhere in between), and I find it difficult to believe that anyone with experience running a mail server would claim it's reasonable or straightforward.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago

it's also really, really fucking unpredictable, in the the-other-parties-do-not-reliably-behave-the-same way

used to hate having to debug mail failing to deliver to yahoo, and now lately google has started filling that niche..

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago

eh, nix is experiencing a chudpocalypse at the moment, which might be why you're catching strays