I've been running mail servers and writing email software since the dialup days of 1995. I guess by today's trends, that could brand me a holdout.
But we're still hosting mail for hundreds of company domains across dozens of mail servers, all in a nicely packaged system that's always just an "apt install" away.
The landscape has changed over time, and, yes, it is annoying dealing with the imbalance that the behemoth mail providers represent these days.
But there's a lot to be said for not bargaining away your digital autonomy.
I saw @mwl selling his "Run Your Own Mail Server" book and jumped to pick up a copy. Not so much because I had a need for it (though it'll be interesting to compare notes!), but because I strongly support the idea that email is still a shared ecosystem and love that Michael is sharing the knowledge to encourage folks to continue to participate.
Long live the open Internet.
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September / October is always one of the busiest times for me now.
As Experimental Officer part of my job is making sure software is installed and working on some Linux machines on campus in advance of the new semester that starts soon.
This isn't as simple as it sounds, and results in hours of debugging to ask questions like why Matlab doesn't like its licence.
I don't use Matlab myself, but I can say that I hate Matlab.
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It’s probably also that weird 80% scale staging furniture to make everything look big and spacious.
But I totally agree with you about the deer antlers right over the bed. I had one of my wife’s paintings fall on me in the night (light canvas over pine frame) and I’m still traumatized.
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This is a northern mockingbird Mimus polyglottos) that I saw in Texas. Okay, I'll say it out loud, it is not any bigger than mockingbirds in other states.
"If you’ve been hearing an endless string of 10 or 15 different birds singing outside your house, you might have a Northern Mockingbird in your yard. These slender-bodied gray birds apparently pour all their color into their personalities. They sing almost endlessly, even sometimes at night, and they flagrantly harass birds that intrude on their territories, flying slowly around them or prancing toward them, legs extended, flaunting their bright white wing patches." - allaboutbirds.org
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I dedicated a little time to build rserv, a simple prototyping RESTful server, with some interesting features. Here's the feature set and potential use cases, compared to other options.
It's very beta at this time, let me know if you are interested. FOSS, obviously.
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Ok folks on #Fedora anybody have any bright ideas what might be preventing me from accessing my Apache server on Asahi Fedora remix from my phone? I was trying to test a website on mobile and I just can't connect at all. I've already checked that there's no firewall running with ufw and iptables *seem* correct... I'm really at my wits end with what should be a simple task
I dedicated a little time to build rserv, a simple prototyping RESTful server, with some interesting features. Here's the feature set and potential use cases, compared to other options.
It's very beta at this time, let me know if you are interested. FOSS, obviously.
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in reply to Michael W Lucas • • •Santiago Lema
in reply to Autumn Mahoney • • •What I’d want from modern email is to migrate to another system. Just like mail but to work only with a white list of pre-approved people, only access markdown or .asciidoc formatting, rejecting all others messages and sending them to a default old school “purgatory” email to request mutual link with signed messages.
There are surely systems out there but I wish this had a name, a standardized multi platform app and server software (all under an open license).
Michael W Lucas
in reply to Santiago Lema • • •i considered setting up a "default deny" mail server for this book, but it was already too big.
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in reply to Autumn Mahoney • • •Autumn Mahoney
in reply to cybervegan (moved) • • •@cybervegan It has definitely required keeping up with over the years. Fortunately the DMARC situation feels a lot more stable now than it did for quite a while, so it's less of a dark-art pile of chaos.
Getting all of our clients moved over to fully DMARC-authenticated email — with all their third-party mailer services too — was a long process. I ended up updating our mail software to be able to automatically ingest and summarize DMARC reports, and that helped a lot with making sure everything was accounted for.
But now that it's all done, we're seeing lots fewer instances of blatant forgery of mail from folks' domains, so it seems like it was a necessary shift.
Kind of wild how the whole ecosystem was able to ease through that process together, and now we're at the point where it's effectively required. It took carrots and sticks from those big providers (who are prone to abuse that power as well), but the DMARC authentication itself seems to be a net gain now that the dust is settling.
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in reply to Autumn Mahoney • • •Michael W Lucas
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Once upon a time, email was a miracle.
Now the spammers have conferences, R&D budgets, and hire psychologists to develop better tricks. And we must defend against that.
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in reply to Michael W Lucas • • •Mark Wyner Won’t Comply
in reply to Autumn Mahoney • • •i love this so much. And I have a question for you. I hate pretty much every email client out there. I want to design/build my own. Not for sale, but just package it and use it for myself. Would you recommend that I give it a go or run from myself? 😂
I’m really wondering how hard it is, and there doesn’t seem to be a consensus about it. My understanding is the biggest challenge is getting emails to render properly.
Thoughts? Advice?
Autumn Mahoney
in reply to Mark Wyner Won’t Comply • • •@markwyner I love that you're asking this, because I've been thinking about it a lot lately. The state of email and webmail clients is abysmal.
I've settled on Postbox on desktop, Roundcube for webmail, and FairEmail on Android. But it really is settling, because I don't love any of them.
I have written webmail clients before. Rendering HTML mail is messy, but I think the worst part is dealing with MIME parts and part encodings. It's all so sloppy.
Plus, the IMAP protocol is no joy. I'd love something in the spirit of JMAP finally put IMAP to bed.
I would love to make a webmail interface so good that I'd *want* to use it in place of a desktop client. It's made me start thinking a lot about what something like that could look like.
An obstacle, though, is that people (ab)use email in so many different kinds of workflows. Some must-have function for one person is another's deal breaker. That's part of the stagnation — nobody can agree on what a good email interface actually is.
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