Thus said Craig Skinner on Fri, 18 Sep 2026 06:31:22 +0100: > By the way:- running email servers is much more difficult & fiddly > than running web or SQL/LDAP database servers. Email has many hidden > worms & dragons to tame & overcome. rDNS, DKIM, SPF, ARC, DNSRBLs, > IMAP/POP, sieve, spamd(1) (1), etc, etc, etc.
Setting up other communication protocols can be just as challenging. Don't let the complexity be too much of a hindrance: https://poolp.org/posts/2019-08-30/you-should-not-run-your-mail-server-because-mail-is-hard/ I still think there's value in people setting up their own as others have suggested: https://poolp.org/posts/2019-12-15/decentralised-smtp-is-for-the-greater-good/ Andy
