[HumblyTossed]

>> The fact nobody reinvented e-mail on top of a different set of standards is a good indication that the current stack is not as broken as some people would like to think.

email is one of those technologies that "just works" but so many people seem to think it needs to be "fixed". it's generally very reliable and so people should just accept that and be grateful. It could be worse - it could be enshittified like so much other technology.

[HDBaseT]

> it's generally very reliable and so people should just accept that and be grateful

It's only really "very reliable" if you use Google or Microsoft for email, since they are the arbitrator of modern email.

[inigyou]

Self-hosted receiving is also very reliable. Only when you send from your server you might have blacklisting problems. But so many applications today are receive-only - every website signup.

[rbanffy]

I admit it’s sometimes painful to self-host your SMTP service, but that’s because it was very painless to send massive amounts of spam and very painful to throttle and filter messages, but we have much better tooling now.

[isaachinman]

Working in this exact space with marcoapp.io

We all deserve better, even self-hosted IMAP servers