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   Jason Tubnor 🇦🇺 (tubsta@soc.feditime.com)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 08:29:21 JST Jason Tubnor 🇦🇺
   Remote mail support is a pain in the arse, unless you run your own mail server. Outsource it they say, yeah, nahh. #RYOMS
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 05:23:14 JST feld

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     @gumnos @Tubsta Even a slow computer can run email super fast. That's what's crazy. It really is faster than the big providers.
     
     I only wish I could have Fastmail's interface for my own private email server ☹️
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     Tim Chase (gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 05:23:15 JST Tim Chase

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     @Tubsta As much of a pain as running your own mail-server is with regards to successfully delivering, everything else is pure win. Your mail provider dropped POP3 or IMAP support? Bummer, mine still works without issue. Oh, they added OAUTH2 requirements and your preferred local mail client can no longer connect? Sad to hear, but mine doesn't. Your Exchange server requires client-application verification and no longer allows you to connect from mutt? Sorry, but I can still connect to my mail just fine even with `openssl s_client` if I need to.

     (having experienced all of the above with connecting to $DAYJOB mail, I feel the pain acutely and appreciate that my personal mailserver doesn't manifest any of that grief)

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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 05:25:24 JST Blurry Moon

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     @feld @gumnos I used to run my mail server on a beaglebone black
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     Tim Chase (gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 05:38:13 JST Tim Chase

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     @sun @feld

     Of a "vintage" age myself, I remember when file-servers (good ol' Novell Networks), email servers, FTP-servers, etc, were all measured in *mega*bytes of RAM. The first machine I had with >1GB of RAM blew my mind that software could be so profligate. And yet here we are

     :glares at Chrome & Firefox:

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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 05:39:15 JST Blurry Moon

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     @gumnos @feld my first admin job was on a novell ipx network and my first mainframe operator job was an hp-3000! while I was still in high school! Good times.
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 07:30:45 JST feld

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     @gumnos @Tubsta Is anyone running email co-ops? I'd help fund and contribute administration to a shared email service operated by people I can trust. I just don't want to run my own because if I get hit by a bus my wife may end up losing access to our primary email domain
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     Tim Chase (gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 07:49:18 JST Tim Chase

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     @feld @Tubsta I'm unaware of any such coops, but there aren't that many folks in my circles who fall in the intersection of technical competence and familial trust. Fortunately, the VPS requires minimal upkeep and I try to keep the domain-name registered as far out as I can, so, while my demise might mean she has to switch to something like gmail or a different mail provider, she at least has some time to do it.

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 07:56:08 JST feld

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     @gumnos @Tubsta a bug, crash, attack etc could still take it down in the meantime. I am just paranoid about stuff like that.