The Battle for Power on the Internet

Re:The Battle for Power on the Internet by Theodores on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @07:16PM (#6644181)

I don't understand why email hosting has to be so difficult. You say it is easy, which it is if you know what you are doing, but it is not really that simple, is it? There is no out of the box solution that just works, even the microsoft effort called exchange is not that. You should be able to configure a mail server with the ease that you can configure a mail client.

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Re:The Battle for Power on the Internet by devicenull on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @07:29PM (#6644260)

Spam is the reason. Mail servers are easy to set up, it's all the crap you need to do to actually get your mail accepted that's hard.

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Re:The Battle for Power on the Internet by rsync on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @08:14PM (#6644474)

In 16 years of running my own mail server(s) I have never done anything to "get my mail accepted", other than make sure relaying is turned off, which I think it is by default in just about every implementation since 1998.

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Re:The Battle for Power on the Internet by zachlatta on Thursday October 31, 2013 @01:44AM (#6645457)

Consider yourself lucky. I made the mistake of not setting up my email with OpenDKIM and virtually all of my mail went to spam for a few months.

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