Hey self-hosting people!
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Hey self-hosting people!
A couple of years ago I asked about people's experiences with self-hosting email:
Grow Your Own Services 🌱 (@[email protected])
Does anyone here have experience of running their own email instance? Would you say it is viable for a non-technical individual to run their own email service? Do you have any lessons to pass on? #AskFedi #AskFediverse #AskTheFediverse
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The consensus at the time seemed to be that self-hosting email wasn't worth the trouble, and that it was a pain compared to other forms of self-hosting.
Has anything changed? Is email still much more difficult to self-host than other online services?
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Mick 🇨🇦replied to Grow Your Own Services 🌱 last edited by
@homegrown
@pluralistic has a cautionary tale to tell you, here: https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/10/dead-letters/#more-6162The actual operation of a server is nbd.
Ensuring that everyone you want to reach from that server can be reached from that server can occassionally become impossible for reasons entirely out of your control.
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Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️replied to Grow Your Own Services 🌱 last edited by
@homegrown
Completely disagree. I'm not a coder or sysop or anything like that, but I've been hosting my own email with Yunohost for years and it's been simple and has worked great.The key is just not hosting it on an IP address that has been previously used for spam and stuff, which a lot of residential ISP and cheap, popular webhosts have been.
As soon as I switched to to a clean IP address and entered Yunohosts recommended nameserver entries, everything has just worked. For years.
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@homegrown
Oh and yes, before someone inevitably asks, yes, my mail is regularly delivered successfully to gmail accounts all the time. -
@homegrown
Oh and yes, before someone inevitably asks, yes, my mail is regularly delivered successfully to gmail accounts all the time.
