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Along the Ray  

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#email#old-school Kickstarter book on running your own email server goes hot https://notes.alongtheray.com/kickstarter-book-on-running-your-own-email-server-goes-hot Run Your Own Mail Server: A Book for Independence & Privacy by kickstarter.com → Run Your Own Mail Server: A Book for Independence & PrivacyA book May-28-2024 21:41:00 -0400
May 28, 2024 updated May 28, 2024
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Kickstarter book on running your own email server goes hot

Run Your Own Mail Server: A Book for Independence & Privacy by kickstarter.com →

Run Your Own Mail Server: A Book for Independence & PrivacyA book for the hard-core Unix sysadmin, by a fellow hard-core sysadmin with decades of experience running small mail servers.

A book about an obscure old school technology exceeds funding expectations. Goes to show. old school is still cool!

Excellent intro too — it dives into the philosophy of why you should run your own email server if you’re up for it:

Running your own mail server is not only an act of defiance against some of the largest exploitative companies in history. It is not a mere education in protocols. Email is essential to modern industrial society. By running your own email, you seize control of your communications. You can tune your email to fit your needs, rather than accepting the defaults imposed by a company that exploits you without a speck of consideration for any of your issues. You own it.

For those unawares, he’s talking about Google’s near monopoly of email via its Gmail service (see chart here).

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