social.data.coop is part of the decentralized social network powered by Mastodon.
Denne Mastodon server er for medlemmer af data.coop. Du er naturligvis velkommen til at melde dig ind i vores forening hvis du vil være med! Mere info på vores hjemmeside data.coop.

Administered by:

Server stats:

27
active users

Learn more

Small-host email servers aren't an impossible technical challenge.

The problem is that big tech spam filters and block lists prefer to block everything that isn't already a walled garden email host like Gmail, Outlook etc.

This is not net neutrality.

And LOTS of spam is sent out from walled gardens' services.

It's hypocrisy.

I propose that you have a primary email at a non-big tech host. People can contact you there and the walled gardens will have to learn.

Benjamin Balder Bach

If you run an email host, you probably know the issue: Even though your server NEVER sent out anything that was spam, it gets blocked immediately trying to send out legit emails.

WHY?

To protect the monopoly of big tech email.

There's so many options to block spam, including AI! There's no reason that an email host that NEVER was reported for spam should be blocked by default. But it happens again and again.

@benjaoming yes. I totally agree. I personally hav not much experiences sending emails from my servers.. but once I tried.. then found out that I have blocked by spamhaus. the reason was simple. dynamic ip. well.. i am running my server unregistered. but that doesn't mean that i did send any spam to any one. it even take away proper right to try out and learn to setup/manage a mailing server.

@benjaoming Yeah. A sincere fuck you to Hotmail/Outlook, the by far worst offender.

@leonidas @benjaoming in my experience Google/gmail are even worse!

@bvli @benjaoming At least I managed to get my mail to arrive there, with hotmail no chance.

@bvli @benjaoming What makes this even worse is that I keep on receiving spam originating from Microsoft mail servers, so for all their walled-garden-ness they don't even solve the spam problem.

@leonidas @benjaoming

Yeah okay. Haven’t had problems with that for a long time now (after filling out some kind of form, a long time ago). I had problems with office365 a couple of years ago, but being persistent in creating help desk cases each time a user reported that mails was rejected have helped.

Google on the other hand silently keeps putting mails from my server into the spam folder.

The point in @benjaoming ‘s toot is true though. Email is owned by a few actors🥺