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The Death of Decentralized Email (blog.lopp.net)

submitted 3 months ago by makeasnek@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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Interesting history and analysis of SMTP's history. How can we prevent fedi and other open protocols from suffering the same fates?

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[-] observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 96 points 3 months ago

You can't successfully use a home email server.

Mostly true (server can be home but using the ISP network directly probably won't work)

You can't successfully use an email server on a (cloud) VPS.

Bullshit

You can't successfully use an email server on a bare metal machine in your own datacenter.

Bullshit

As such, it is my distinct displeasure to declare the death of SMTP. The protocol is no longer usable. And as we can see, this devolution occurred organically.

Bullshit

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

I'm going to add "bullshit" to the first. I've gone 2 decades running a few email domains on my home servers, on 3 different ISPs. Its not rocket surgery.