How we refreshed self-hosted Recoil email with our own RIPE-allocated IPv4 block, and deployed Postfix/rspamd/Dovecot to get full SPF/DKIM/DMARC deliverability.
After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won.
Many companies have been trying to disrupt email by making it proprietary. So far, they have failed. Email keeps being an open protocol. Hurray? No hurray. Email is not distributed anymore. You just cannot create another first-class node of this ne
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comail
Cooperative email for atproto. Small self-hosters pool reputation through a shared relay so mail from their own domain reliably reaches the inbox.
comail
Cooperative email for atproto. Small self-hosters pool reputation through a shared relay so mail from their own domain reliably reaches the inbox.
Re-thinking electronic mail
There are many problems with the existing Internet email system, such as spam, scam, surveillance, insecurity, centralization, and complexity. The problems are starting to outweigh the benefits of the system. Fixing the problems by evolving the current system seems overwhelmingly difficult. This essay examines some solutions to the problems on the assumption that a completely new, parallel email system can be built.
Email isn’t decentralized, and that’s fine
Email is open, but deliverability depends on a few big inbox providers. Why we traded some of email's decentralization to fight spam, and why that's fine.
Configure direct-delivery incoming email for self-hosted sites with Mail-Receiver
Discourse is all about enabling civilized discussion. While plenty of people like a web interface, e-mail is still the “hub” of many people’s online lives. That’s why sending e-mail is so important, and when you’re sending e-mail, you really want to be able to receive it, too. There are several reasons why: If e-mails “bounce” (they can’t be delivered for some reason), you need to know about that. Repeatedly sending e-mails that bounce will get your e-mails flagged as spam. Receiving e-ma...
Mailbrew - Your personal email digest
Create beautiful, automated newsletters with content from the sites and apps you love.
Home - maddy
Maddy Mail Server implements all functionality required to run a e-mail server. It can send messages via SMTP (works as MTA), accept messages via SMTP (works as MX) and store messages while providing access to them via IMAP. In addition to that it implements auxiliary protocols that are mandatory to keep email reasonably secure (DKIM, SPF, DMARC, DANE, MTA-STS).
Sessy - Open-source email observability for AWS SES
Track deliveries, bounces, opens, clicks, and complaints from AWS SES in a self-hosted dashboard you own.
Email explained from first principles
Modern email is a patchwork of protocols and extensions. Here is one article to understand them all.
Make your Gmail more private - Nathan Nelson
Proton, the Swiss encrypted and privacy-aware email service, now lets you read and reply to your Gmail emails from within Proton. If you’re looking to wean yourself off Gmail, or just curious about trying an alternative, this could be a good place to start: anyone you reply to will still receive your messages as Gmail, ... Read more
Super Mail Forward : an email that evolves as you forward it
Last year, Litmus held a community contest which theme was “Emails Worth Forwarding”. In order to participate, I created an email I called…
