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   nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Oct-2025 19:31:21 JST nixCraft 🐧

   Heads up! Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP. https://support.google.com/mail/answer/16604719?hl=en

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Oct-2025 02:54:39 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • Matěj Cepl 🇪🇺 🇨🇿 🇺🇦

     @mcepl @gumnos if you have to use a gendered pronoun make it "she".

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     Matěj Cepl 🇪🇺 🇨🇿 🇺🇦 (mcepl@en.osm.town)'s status on Friday, 03-Oct-2025 02:54:40 JST Matěj Cepl 🇪🇺 🇨🇿 🇺🇦

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     @gumnos @whitequark

     I was running my own server for years. I didn’t give up because of my incompetence (I hope), but because I found that I have better things to do than constantly battling with SpamHause, Google, Microsoft, and others who try to cement the monopoly in the email delivery. I just outsourced that job to Fastmail, and I am very happy with the result.

     And yes, his second point is absolutely correct. Let somebody else deal with it. And he still ends with “with everyone but M365.”

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     Tim Chase (gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe)'s status on Friday, 03-Oct-2025 02:54:42 JST Tim Chase

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     @mcepl

     The qualifications for running your own mailserver is not negligible, but it's also well documented in such a way that most competent geeks with a few bucks for a domain-name and VPS could get the fundamentals up and running in a weekend.

     A discussion particularly apropos of reading @whitequark's recent thread¹ that crossed my feed, detailing adventures in busting the "setting up a mailserver is hard" myth.

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     ¹ https://mastodon.social/@whitequark/115298019560025791

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     Matěj Cepl 🇪🇺 🇨🇿 🇺🇦 (mcepl@en.osm.town)'s status on Friday, 03-Oct-2025 02:54:43 JST Matěj Cepl 🇪🇺 🇨🇿 🇺🇦

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     @gumnos @nixCraft

     I understand that, but this is a suggestion for absolute geeks with a lot of free time to struggle with SpamHaus and other institutions targeting peaceful operation of the server. I would prefer if we all promoted as an alternative to GMail/Outlook/etc. other purely commercial providers like Fastmail et al. instead pushing normals to something where they will eventually and necessarily burn out.

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     Tim Chase (gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe)'s status on Friday, 03-Oct-2025 02:54:44 JST Tim Chase

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     @nixCraft Sounds like a good opportunity to Run Your Own Mail Server 😉

     https://mwl.link/run-your-own-mail-server.html

     #ryoms