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At the same time, don't run your own mail server.

E-mail is not, in practice, a federated protocol which anyone can participate in. E-mail is, in practice, a protocol where Microsoft, Apple and Google can send mail between each others' systems.

Stop using e-mail.




That’s one problem I never had. With DKIM, SPF, and the other right DNS records in place, I had no worse trouble with deliverability in general than I do with a large host. Every couple of years I’d try to email someone with an rule like “don’t accept email from a VPS, at all, ever”, and shrug it off because they were already use to discarding a huge chunk of valid email so what’s one more.


> Stop using e-mail.

Right after everyone and your grandma stop using e-mail as a UUID. No, phone number doesn't cut.


No, that's the one thing e-mail actually works decently well for. Just stop using it for all these other things.


It is. Don't let people who don't run mailservers tell you otherwise.




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