Email Is Bad

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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Lots of cons are nonsensical, it's extremely easy to set your own server up if you use Luke Smith's emailwiz.

One pro is also incorrect, and that is "It's private by default". It's not. It's literally just plain text or HTML. Unless you encrypt it with PGP, it will be readable by anyone on the server. And also the thing with encryption is that metadata will also be visible, i.e. subject of the message, headers, date, recepient, etc., etc.

[–]jamesK_3rd 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I think setup may not be the most difficult part. The hard thing is if you run into trouble, you need to be a good sys admin to hunt issues down.

That's not a skill most people have.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Most of the issues I had were resolved simply by re-running the script, machine reboot or propagating DNS records again. Although yeah, small errors can give you shit sometimes, but I disagree it's that hard.

[–]jamesK_3rd 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeh again, there's a difference between set and forget, and hunting down issues.

I've been my own sysadmin and mail server admin for a few years now because I do software architecture for work.

Things like using the postfix mail-id or mail queue to determine why a message isn't being delivered or being sent, correctly using dovecot, etc.

What's more difficult as well are all the hoops to go thru to get your email delivered to Google. Which is hard but can be done, however, Outlook, or sending mail to someone with MS account, is very difficult I to not have email go to spam.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Always good shit with you. You are most likely the best poster on said it.

[–]ID10T 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

You are posting good shit my man. Having dealt with configuring DKIM and SPF for sending loads of emails, it's a real mess!