Moin,
on 15.09.22 15:37, Gellner, Oliver via mailop wrote:
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The full blogpost can be read here:
https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-twenty-three-years-i-have-thrown-in-the-towel-the-oligopoly-has-won.html
To get back to the original topic: In my opinion many of the claims made in
this blog post are factually wrong. Instead of countering each of them I rather
point to the ecosystem around us:
We communicate with tens of thousands of different MTAs and most of them are
not run by members if the mentioned oligopoly. If it was impossible to run your
own email server, those MTAs wouldn‘t exist. But they do exist.
Yes, but ... no. It does not matter much, whether my MTA can talk to
mail.xyz.zyx; the number of my users wanting to talk to users there, or
vice-versa, most likely is zero. It's a different topic for MSFT, GMail, or
even t-online.de, gmx.net — loads of people do have an email address with one
of these providers, and if my MTA is blocked by their MTAs, communication
becomes a one-way street. Thus, while there are tens of thousands of MTAs my
MTA may talk to, it's only a few hands full, if even more than one, that my MTA
_needs_ to be able to talk to: where a vast majority of users have their mail
account with.
Regards,
-kai
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