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Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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9 points

Jesus fucking christ…

So where do I switch now? Is this the moment I build my own email server and handle this shit myself? I really don’t wanna…

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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chance is near 100% though

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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…

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7 points

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

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I use tuta and they seem mostly ok.

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they have apparently promised they don’t plan on implementing anything AI-related which is good, though I’m honestly hoping for a system where our privacy isn’t entirely reliant on the promises of a single authority

and I’m not saying we should do our own federated e2e email service, but somebody should

…more realistically, I’ll probably switch to tuta when my proton account nears renewal, as I’m not a fan of how much pure unfiltered horseshit I’m seeing them output with the money I paid them

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