Email is an open system, right? Anyone can send a message to anyone… unless they are on Gmail! School Interviews uses two email servers t…

  • tony@feed.sokolik.info
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    1 year ago

    THIS!

    Managing mail servers is the worst. If you want your own email just go register email on something like Zoho. It’s cheap and the couple $$ you spend on it is money well spent to prevent the time and aggravation you’ll have running your own server.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, as someone who hosts a private email server, don’t do it. I don’t use my mail server for anything remotely important, because I don’t have enough monitoring in place to be sure it’s working 100% of the time. Silently dropping emails is a huge deal, especially if your monitoring is email-based… It’s 100% worth it paying for email hosting if you want to set up custom domains and mailboxes.