We are now 364 Microsoft outages away from countries and companies recognising that running their own email services is the way the system was meant to be. #SarcasmButOnlyHalf
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@jwildeboer the thing is, this outage has shown that Outlook / Exchange / Teams AREN'T e-mail and messaging - they're walled-garden 'MS Communication Apps' - if they weren't, it would still work when one part goes down. Remember when you could hos t your own and use SMTP? I don't think Outlook does that anymore #Microsoft #MIcrosoft365Outage
@jwildeboer heh.
I used to have a very small web site. The hosting provider at the time provided not only the space for my handful of html files that made up my "site" but it also came with "your own mail server" so you could have yourname@yourowndomain.whatever email addresses. I'm SO long out of that game that I have no idea what goes on under the hood or whether it might be a good idea for the less tech savvy amongst us. What say you?
@rozeboosje I wrote a 5 part series on how I run my mail server that manages 20+ domains on a small Linux box [1]. Feel free to read it and decide if it is worth it for you to go down that road. If not, know there are quite some mail-in-a-box solutions that run as containers etc. However — I have never used one of those, so cannot help you there. But others here can and will!
[1] https://jan.wildeboer.net/2022/08/Email-0-The-Journey-2022/
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Warning. This whole series is not a simple HOWTO. This series is about how I run my mail server. I go through the configuration, line by line and explain. It’s not going to be a simple Copy/Paste to run your own mail server. You have been warned.
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@jwildeboer Of course, yelling at clouds is a part of my job as an IT systems architect.
Also: email is still one of the most important services out there, no matter how often its death has been predicted and no matter how often techbros tell me that it cannot be saved and that self hosting email is futile and I should just give in and move my email to Microsoft or Google. I am now officially a grumpy old man, yelling at clouds while keeping his postfix and dovecot up and running ;)