Show HN: OpenBSD Email Service – A free-email alternative

Re:Show HN: OpenBSD Email Service – A free-email alternative by semanticist on Friday February 16, 2018 @10:56AM (#16393195)

My mail server routes via Amazon's SES, which provides an SMTP smarthost my instance of postfix can relay mail to. You authenticate each sending domain using DNS, and it even supports DKIM signing.

Until I did this, my deliverability, especially to GMail, was awful.

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Re:Show HN: OpenBSD Email Service – A free-email alternative by Tharkun on Friday February 16, 2018 @01:13PM (#16394379)

Assuming you're running your own mailserver because you like the idea of a decentralized web; isn't it kind of odd to then rely on Amazon?

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Re:Show HN: OpenBSD Email Service – A free-email alternative by semanticist on Sunday February 18, 2018 @09:32AM (#16406222)

Maybe, but in my case it would not be a valid assumption.

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Re:Show HN: OpenBSD Email Service – A free-email alternative by amdavidson on Friday February 16, 2018 @02:07PM (#16394950)

Have you seen any issues with the envelope from not matching the the email address?

ezmlm, for example, will not let you subscribe/unsubscribe

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Re:Show HN: OpenBSD Email Service – A free-email alternative by semanticist on Sunday February 18, 2018 @09:42AM (#16406264)

I've not run into any problems myself - even if I did, I think I'd rather be able to reliably email people with GMail accounts!

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Re:Show HN: OpenBSD Email Service – A free-email alternative by _eht on Friday February 16, 2018 @11:46AM (#16393604)

That's a smart way to work around a frustrating problem. It's a bummer there are so many loopholes to jump through.

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