by setting the entire thing (https://codeberg.org/whitequark/mail.whitequark.org) up from scratch on a never-seen-before IP using a completely fresh server in about a day on new-to-me NixOS, i want to put the folk wisdom of "you can't self-host email in 2025 and even if you did gmail won't accept it" to rest. evidently, it can be done.
Microsoft 365 however apparently will hate your email no matter what. you learn to live with it
3/3
✧✦Catherine✦✧
npub1y6…5d9nx
2025-10-01 08:47:41 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…kqes
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