A historical review of the multi-decade centralization and capture of the email protocol.

Interesting history and analysis of SMTP’s history. How can we prevent fedi and other open protocols from suffering the same fates?

  • @ikiddEnglish
    11•2 months ago

    I’m going to add “bullshit” to the first. I’ve gone 2 decades running a few email domains on my home servers, on 3 different ISPs. Its not rocket surgery.

    • I'm Hiding 🇦🇺
      3•2 months ago

      I’ve been running one with a dozen or more users on bare metal at home for the last two years. A little bit of spam but otherwise fine. No deliverability issues or anything.

    • WaveEnglish
      1•2 months ago

      Same here minus about 15 years

      • @kalpol
        2•2 months ago

        Same here. Static IP though. I did set up another experiment with a haproxy vps just to see if I could do it if I lost my static IP, worked perfectly done that way too.

        Fail2ban, pfblocker, and soamassassin work great.

          • @kalpol
            2•2 months ago

            My sending got blocked from dynamic IPs, maybe things have changed though