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- Comment on Mail-in-a-Box - simple email server 1 hour ago:
I don’t think the SPF / DKIM / DMARC stuff is overly complex nor the core of the problem.
In my case it was recipients with bonkers microsoft exchange servers that just had weird ideas about who should be sending them emails.
For example, one thing that tripped me up forever ago was grey listing. Apparently the receiving server just wouldn’t acknowledge the sending server for an arbitrary period of time, say 12 hours or so. Spam senders would usually give up long before then, while a legit server would keep trying because it’s legitimately trying to deliver an actual email.
So my email-in-a-box type self hosted set up was fine really. Compliant you might say. But to send emails to this one in a thousand recipient I had to investigate what was going on and reconfigure things to ensure their server would interact with mine.
Another thing that can happen is that spammers just put your email address in the “from” field and fire off a few million emails. Obviously the DKIM signatures and SPF won’t match but it still just makes your future legitimate emails look spammy. Having the credibility of a larger organisation goes a long way in this type of instance.
- Comment on Mail-in-a-Box - simple email server 2 hours ago:
I’m absolutely in the “don’t self-host email” camp. That said, I think it could be done reliably if you wanted to use someone else’s SMTP server and let them worry about deliverability. As in, have your mx records on your domain route to your MTA and dovecot, but set your DKIM and SPF records to match a third party SMTP server. You could use mxroute as an SMTP server very cheaply. There are others like the email API type services. I still can’t think of why I’d want to self host with all this drama but just an idea I’ve heard.
- Comment on Spamassassin for Remote IMAP 8 hours ago:
Indeed.
The whole mess seems to have gotten so much worse.
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- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 20 hours ago:
Yeah it’s just bonkers.
A criminal tried to seize power in a violent coup.
Not only was nothing done but voters elected him to be fucking president because they were confused about Palestinians and concerned about the price of eggs.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 20 hours ago:
It’s not real, but it’s concerning that it sounds like something he might say.
- Comment on Corruption watchdog to probe robodebt referrals 1 day ago:
Hopefully it generates some stink around the LNP in the coming election.
It’s just bonkers how many people vote against their own interests in that regard. My parents are rusted on liberal voters but they collect an age pension from centrelink.
Some headlines around the corrupt punishment of poor people last time we had an LNP government sprinkled through the coming months won’t hurt. I mean they probably won’t help either I guess.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 1 day ago:
It’s a good point and deeply concerning.
It wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest if Trump decided to invade somewhere just because he can.
Especially if his economic measures start making him look bad.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 1 day ago:
My global political history isn’t great, and maybe others can correct me here, but it doesn’t feel like the US has had much of a stabilising effect in the last 30 years.
There’s plenty of conflicts that just don’t make the news that the US just isn’t interested in. Poor places with no oil or other resources. Presently Burma comes to mind. There always seems to be somewhere in Africa, last decade there was genocide in Congo IIRC.
Also it’s not really clear whether their involvement in the middle east over the last few decades was positive or negative.
It’s nice to have them hovering around South China Sea to keep China in check I guess.
- Comment on Aboriginal group seeks $1.1bn in damages over Australia mining project | Indigenous Rights News 1 day ago:
This is going to cause a lot of animosity.
- Comment on Families fighting to keep loved ones out of extremist groups struggle to find intervention programs 2 days ago:
I have relatives living in the US who are Trump supporters.
I would struggle to talk to them about anything even unpolitical now.
- Comment on Families fighting to keep loved ones out of extremist groups struggle to find intervention programs 2 days ago:
Yeah so I have a son and daughter who are too young to encounter this stuff but I’m definitely concerned about it. I don’t have any experience at all in navigating this type of dynamic.
I suspect that in the coming years I’m going to realise just how difficult it is to maintain a relationship with your kids where you have some level of influence while simultaneously earning some level of respect, camaraderie, kinship, and ultimately have them share things with you. It kinda sounds impossible honestly.
I know that the fitness angle is also a recruitment tool used by these organisations. You know, come to the gym, learn to work out, learn kickboxing or whatever, acquire role models, be influenced.
I guess one strategy is to encourage relationships with better role models so they have a point of reference when they encounter someone with ulterior motives and differing views.
- Comment on Families fighting to keep loved ones out of extremist groups struggle to find intervention programs 2 days ago:
It would really suck to see your kid get caught up in this.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
You can describe someone like this as a socially conservative democrat.
- Comment on Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says | Reddit executives also discussed how they might introduce more ads into the social media platform 6 days ago:
Yeah it really was pathetic.
Like they took a stand while it was cool, but then capitulated rather than face removal.