AaronMar 6
Re: Proton drama

I'm increasingly convinced the way forwards, for data services in general, is the co-op model. The customers are the owners, basically. People in the US like me might understand the Credit Union model for banking - except for email, for "cloud" anything, etc.

I have the skill to self host email, and honestly, I actively enjoy doing it. EXCEPT the end user support - I don't want to answer calls configuring Outlook, for example.

But the amount of effort I'm putting in for my single email address would be the same for 1,000 email addresses all routed to different people. Add one more human like me, effects multiply, maybe 10,000.

... maybe we need coops to employ people like me for the benefit of the members. Not just for email - for your Plex. Your Wordpress. Your Nextcloud. Your Discord knockoff.

This would be so much more meaningful of a job than my Fortune 500 paycheck provides. Sign me the fuck up. I might even take a pay cut.
Show threadAaronMar 6
For the email case OpenDKIM and OpenDMARC are the bare fucking minimum and need a shitload of work.

DNSSEC is required but I'm covered there; needs to be released after some cleanup. That said, despite doing no cryptography myself and merely calling BIND's DNSSEC tools, Soatoak will probably be very disappointed in me.

Actual SMTP is a solved problem. Just use Postfix. Seriously. Put Sendmail and Exim out to pasture. OpenSMTPD has promise but last I played with it, it wasn't there yet - just use Postfix.

I deliberately omitted qmail because running that is like connecting Windows XP to the modern internet without a firewall. You deserve what you'll get - not just getting p0wned, everyone shunning you for making their lives worse.
Show threadtararntulaMar 6

@aaron
If a coop like this existed, I'd gladly deal with calls while learning to contribute more.

But this list of tools seems like a good place to start messing around/reading about.

Show threadAaron
@tararntula I'm not just willing to be a mentor - I WANT to be a mentor.

I'm not a graybeard. I don't know everything. But I know enough.
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