There is nothing new here, but it's good to remind people from time to time that they are surrendering a tremendous amount of privacy by using email services they don't control.
Funny thing is, I run my own email server. But many people I email do not - much of my email gets scanned because it exists outside of my own email server and on services like gmail or outlook.com. Once you've sent an email you've lost control, again nothing new here.
I guess I should also remind you that the internet never forgets.
Everyone can have his own mail server for $1 - $5 per month. Simple. Pay a bit more and you have it in your house on your own linux box.
Thank you. This is the first time in a long time that I get to write ROFLMAO on Slashdot. It takes me back to my youth.
I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but if you actually do that today, there a very high probability that some major mail services will flag your mail immediately just because you're sending from an IP range used by a domestic ISP. And then more will flag you because someone else with the same ISP actually was spamming and your IP address is within the same/N as them. You won't do much
I already run almost everything myself, including DNS and a CA. And I know it's really not that hard. A thin fork and home server can be maintained with less than half a day of work per week. Or, after the initial setup, no work at all, if everything goes well. It would take me only one additional command each time, to do it for other people as well.
If you think it's easy and it doesn't take much time to administer email, DNS and a CA then you're doing it wrong.
It is not trivial to run those services. Aside from applying security updates, scanning logs and auditing for signs of intrusion you need to keep up with the current state of the art and that changes fairly frequently. TLS configurations, SPF records, dnssec/crypt, DKIM, etc. Getting those things wrong can cut you off from communicating with other people.
Is there some new information here? I must be missing it.
There is nothing new here, but it's good to remind people from time to time that they are surrendering a tremendous amount of privacy by using email services they don't control.
Funny thing is, I run my own email server. But many people I email do not - much of my email gets scanned because it exists outside of my own email server and on services like gmail or outlook.com. Once you've sent an email you've lost control, again nothing new here.
I guess I should also remind you that the internet never forgets.
Everyone can have his own mail server for $1 - $5 per month. Simple. Pay a bit more and you have it in your house on your own linux box.
Thank you. This is the first time in a long time that I get to write ROFLMAO on Slashdot. It takes me back to my youth.
I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but if you actually do that today, there a very high probability that some major mail services will flag your mail immediately just because you're sending from an IP range used by a domestic ISP. And then more will flag you because someone else with the same ISP actually was spamming and your IP address is within the same /N as them. You won't do much
I already run almost everything myself, including DNS and a CA. And I know it's really not that hard. A thin fork and home server can be maintained with less than half a day of work per week. Or, after the initial setup, no work at all, if everything goes well. It would take me only one additional command each time, to do it for other people as well.
If you think it's easy and it doesn't take much time to administer email, DNS and a CA then you're doing it wrong.
It is not trivial to run those services. Aside from applying security updates, scanning logs and auditing for signs of intrusion you need to keep up with the current state of the art and that changes fairly frequently. TLS configurations, SPF records, dnssec/crypt, DKIM, etc. Getting those things wrong can cut you off from communicating with other people.
DNS requires at least two NS records poin