It will become possible to submit kernel patches without touching an email client

Posted Jan 8, 2021 22:27 UTC (Fri) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)
In reply to: It will become possible to submit kernel patches without touching an email client by ecree
Parent article: Some unlikely 2021 predictions

As of January 2021, it's not that hard to set up your own mail server, and configure SPF/DKIM/DMARC in a way that gives you good deliverability into Gmail/Hotmail/etc. I've had my own mail server for years.

I can't see the Big Providers changing this any time soon. There are still tons of businesses running their own mail server or using something other than the Big Ones; businesses that do use Google, etc. will not be amused if they can't communicate with clients or vendors.

This may change in the future, but not for a while, I think. There... that's my reckless prediction for 2021.

Email Servers

Posted Jan 9, 2021 1:31 UTC (Sat) by zlynx (guest, #2285) [Link]

For those of us that have done email for years setting up everything does seem pretty easy. But coming into it cold is hard. New people don't know everything or how it needs to work together.

But, I do remember some useful Linux Journal articles. There may have been a LWN article or two as well.

I do mine on Fedora Linux with Exim, Cyrus IMAP, and SpamAssassin. Exim needs to be configured to deliver to Cyrus properly. At one point I had to adjust the SELinux rules for that but I think that's part of the Fedora packages now. There's also SSL certificate configuration that has to be turned on and adjusted to work with LetsEncrypt.

And then there is DNS with MX, SPF and DKIM and DMARC stuff. And I enabled DNSSEC on my domain which I've heard gives you another few bonus reliability points.

And if you cannot get a static IP then you have to do all of this in the cloud, and optionally configure a VPN and forward your email servers to your home network.

It will become possible to submit kernel patches without touching an email client

Posted Jan 9, 2021 7:00 UTC (Sat) by nilsmeyer (guest, #122604) [Link]

> As of January 2021, it's not that hard to set up your own mail server, and configure SPF/DKIM/DMARC in a way that gives you good deliverability into Gmail/Hotmail/etc. I've had my own mail server for years.

I run my own e-Mail server, it's usually on auto-pilot with me just doing upgrades. But every once in a while an issue crops up, for example I only noticed that there was an issue with IPv6 after a friend told me and provided the logs from his server, I won't get that kind of service from gmail etc..

One of the first things I did as a young apprentice was to set up a new e-Mail / spam filter cluster for a small ISP so I have almost 20 years of this under my belt. The software stack didn't change much, still using Exim, still using Dovecot, replaced spamassassin with rspamd some time ago. Dovecot especially has been a joy with barely any need to do major changes.

> There are still tons of businesses running their own mail server or using something other than the Big Ones; businesses that do use Google, etc. will not be amused if they can't communicate with clients or vendors.

As long as Microsoft still offers Exchange on Premise that should remain the case. They could of course at any time decide that they really want customers to use their cloud instead. That worries me. At the same time Microsoft Outlook ruined e-Mail for a lot of people, I can always tell when I'm communicating with an Outlook User - full quote of all prior e-Mails, HTML signatures, the German version for some reason not using Re: but AW: for replies...