An interesting article from Gilles Chehade, author of OpenSMTPD, from 2019.
“Self-hosting mail is not HARD but requires WORK, which are two different things.”
I ran mail servers for more than 10 years, much of that time in Asia, where we had to deal with a significant amount of spam. It's also been more than 10 years since I last managed one. Not because I don't want to, but simply because I haven't had the opportunity since then. And running a mail server just for myself doesn't make much sense to me.
Still worth reading today.
https://poolp.org/posts/2019-08-30/you-should-not-run-your-mail-server-because-mail-is-hard/
#email #opensmtpd #sendmail #postfix
r1w1s1
npub177…teh9a
2026-09-19 13:08:56 UTC
Author Public Key
npub1773c2kdhaf88lk6nntdudn2p74egzurcs528cnmltl6vmshltu2q0teh9aSeen on
wss://relay.momostr.pinkPublished at
2026-09-19 13:08:56 UTCEvent JSON
{
"id": "b147123b7f21919ed57039c455355448c3159322964e11007821ff6c314274e6",
"pubkey": "f7a38559b7ea4e7fdb539adbc6cd41f57281707885147c4f7f5ff4cdc2ff5f14",
"created_at": 1789823336,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"t",
"postfix"
],
[
"t",
"email"
],
[
"t",
"sendmail"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://snac.bsd.cafe/r1w1s1/p/1789823336.004506",
"web"
],
[
"t",
"opensmtpd"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://snac.bsd.cafe/r1w1s1/p/1789823336.004506",
"activitypub"
],
[
"L",
"pink.momostr"
],
[
"l",
"pink.momostr.activitypub:https://snac.bsd.cafe/r1w1s1/p/1789823336.004506",
"pink.momostr"
],
[
"-"
]
],
"content": "An interesting article from Gilles Chehade, author of OpenSMTPD, from 2019.\n\n“Self-hosting mail is not HARD but requires WORK, which are two different things.”\n\nI ran mail servers for more than 10 years, much of that time in Asia, where we had to deal with a significant amount of spam. It's also been more than 10 years since I last managed one. Not because I don't want to, but simply because I haven't had the opportunity since then. And running a mail server just for myself doesn't make much sense to me.\n\nStill worth reading today.\n\nhttps://poolp.org/posts/2019-08-30/you-should-not-run-your-mail-server-because-mail-is-hard/\n#email #opensmtpd #sendmail #postfix",
"sig": "34d0ab1dda263ac41882a8507648b91f1637c4bcc93f9e430f5a11fec3ea56e3c5de6017265e7b610160b23cd53ee0f61ea060fe2f97ffd3cc7d1ce0d095be74"
}