Today I've finally given up on self-hosting email. After 22 years.
I'm not even slightly nostalgic.
When I shut down the IRC daemon a few years ago, I was nostalgic. I have many happy memories of playing with it, making friends, meeting people. And then moving on to freenode and later libera.chat.
Email, however, was only fun at the very beginning, when everything was new and fun. It quickly became a chore. Spam. Maintaining reputation by setting it up just right to prevent relaying and backscatter. Never-ending security updates.
It's hard to keep up at the best of times, but then I burned out (repeatedly) and realised I can't do this any more. It's time to pay someone who knows what they're doing.
#irc #email #selfhosting
I'm not even slightly nostalgic.
When I shut down the IRC daemon a few years ago, I was nostalgic. I have many happy memories of playing with it, making friends, meeting people. And then moving on to freenode and later libera.chat.
Email, however, was only fun at the very beginning, when everything was new and fun. It quickly became a chore. Spam. Maintaining reputation by setting it up just right to prevent relaying and backscatter. Never-ending security updates.
It's hard to keep up at the best of times, but then I burned out (repeatedly) and realised I can't do this any more. It's time to pay someone who knows what they're doing.
#irc #email #selfhosting
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