Thought for the day: Is the way in which it has been made effectively impossible to run your own mail server on the Internet and have it reliably deliver mail without having to ask permission from the big email vendors - unless you’re using their services or those of one of the few big email delivery companies - monopolistic or anticompetitive behaviour? The ability to run your own services on the public Internet should be a fundamental right.
I say this as someone who has experience of running mail servers in today’s Internet.
@m
How is it 'effectively impossible'? I don't see that, and have been running my own mail server for almost 30 years now...
How is it 'effectively impossible'? I don't see that, and have been running my own mail server for almost 30 years now...
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@wouter How often have you, say, moved them to a new IP, though?
@m
Several times. Yes, that is not something you do overnight. My procedure there is, set up the new server as a secondary MX (but don't listen on it, yet) and update the SPF record to also mark it as a valid source, then wait a month for the reputation to catch up before switching over.
I need that much time to switch everything else over, anyway.
Several times. Yes, that is not something you do overnight. My procedure there is, set up the new server as a secondary MX (but don't listen on it, yet) and update the SPF record to also mark it as a valid source, then wait a month for the reputation to catch up before switching over.
I need that much time to switch everything else over, anyway.