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Michael W Lucas¹ :flan_mail:

Normal authors: release book to the public early in the week, with much fanfare.

Me, late Friday afternoon, from a dark alley: "psst! Hey, you! Yeah, you! #sysadmin! Buddy! You ever wanted to Run Your Own Mail Server?" #ryoms

tiltedwindmillpress.com/produc

(boosts appreciated! :flan_beg: )

cover of "Run Your Own Mail Server" by Michael W Lucas
27 September at 20:01 | Open on io.mwl.io
40 comments
mfjurbala

@mwl

Is this the writer equivalent of pushing to prod on Friday?

27 September at 20:11 | Open on mastodon.online
Michael W Lucas¹ :flan_mail:

huh. someone actually bought the silly thing. :flan_confused:

27 September at 20:21 | Open on io.mwl.io
ludman1

@mwl
I finaly migrated MX records of my self hosted server to Proton. Glad I did it. Last 2 years was a pain without rDNS from my ISP Provider.

27 September at 20:33 | Open on social.tchncs.de
Michael W Lucas¹ :flan_mail:

@ludman1

Yeah, you need reverse DNS, period. That's in Chapter 0 of the book.

27 September at 20:34 | Open on io.mwl.io
dexternemrod

@mwl

@ludman1

Which is what I read atm.
And I love it! ✌️

28 September at 13:22 | Open on troet.cafe
Bredroll

@mwl first two times I saw this in my feed I misread it as "Ruin your own mailserver" :D

27 September at 20:43 | Open on mas.to
F00F the elusive
Captain Steph

@mwl mail without contacts and calendar is pretty pointless IMO.

27 September at 21:01 | Open on fosstodon.org
Michael W Lucas¹ :flan_mail:

@sirber calendar and contacts are purely internal, and depend on your other systems.

Email interoperating with other sites is precise. Get that going, the rest is straightforward.

27 September at 21:33 | Open on io.mwl.io
Xilokar

@mwl
For a lapse of time, i read "Ruin Your Own Mail Server"...

27 September at 22:06 | Open on mamot.fr
Michael W Lucas¹ :flan_mail:

@Xilokar

that's the special backers-only edition.

27 September at 23:34 | Open on io.mwl.io
kit

@mwl @Xilokar I think I’ve found my server hostname. Ruin.

28 September at 3:30 | Open on bsd.network
johne

@Xilokar @mwl I swear I thought I was seeing "things"

28 September at 0:56 | Open on denvr.social
Andrew Graves :arch: :linux:
renato :unarist:

@mwl I heavily fw these book covers fr

27 September at 23:07 | Open on mastodon.social
Dr Bob

@mwl
How about a book on how to set up your own #Mastodon server? Is that in the pipeline?

28 September at 0:24 | Open on vmst.io
Michael W Lucas¹ :flan_mail:

@drrjv

Thought about it, but no. Mastodon is a beast.

Watching alternative implementations to see which is the first to full usability & maintainability.

28 September at 0:31 | Open on io.mwl.io
Kermode

@mwl @drrjv
Not a book exactly, but my decades of notes on securing servers and setting up postfix may as well be!
These days, given an empty debian vps, rDNS and less than two hours, you can have an instance of any/all of several fedi things running with a further few mouse clicks using YUNOhost. During the initial setup, you end up with postfix, clamav, dovecot and roundcube webmail by default.
I'm still giddy with the simplicity every time I set one up.
Edit: fine for a hobbyist or very SMB, not a big org or important production.

@mwl @drrjv
Not a book exactly, but my decades of notes on securing servers and setting up postfix may as well be!
These days, given an empty debian vps, rDNS and less than two hours, you can have an instance of any/all of several fedi things running with a further few mouse clicks using YUNOhost. During the initial setup, you end up with postfix, clamav, dovecot and roundcube webmail by default.
I'm still giddy with the simplicity every time I set one up.
Edit: fine for a hobbyist or very SMB,...

A screenshot of installable programs on yunohost filtered by the word 'mas'. Among the seven things listed are mastodon, glitch, gotosocial and other related fedi.
28 September at 13:54 | Open on tilde.zone
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Michael W Lucas¹ :flan_mail:

@BassRck5000

Lots of reasons not to use them.

But you do you.

28 September at 0:32 | Open on io.mwl.io
DELETED

@mwl Was an offer, have to pay extra... not practical for me.

28 September at 0:35 | Open on mastodon.social
Floaty Birb
Mark T. Tomczak

@mwl Pretty much in love with that cover art given the subject matter, NGL. 😉

28 September at 1:42 | Open on mastodon.fixermark.com
echarlie

@mwl I really would rather not run my own mailserver (I'm not even 30 and have configured sendmail). I just wish commercial providers implemented the damn standards [correctly].

Congrats on the new book. Now I'm looking at your ed books and wondering where my life went wrong.

28 September at 2:30 | Open on social.bigcavemaps.com
Oblomov

@mwl interesting choice of cover there, LOL

28 September at 4:16 | Open on sociale.network
Ken Brucker

@mwl Ahhh!!! I will be sending this to several IT staff where I work on Monday!

28 September at 4:23 | Open on hachyderm.io
Elena ``of Valhalla''

@mwl are you trying to ruin sysadmin-ish people's weekend, here?

(it's for a good reason, boosting to help ruining even more of them :D )

28 September at 5:51 | Open on social.gl-como.it
Sass, David

@mwl I started writing one about running SharePoint Server but licensing is not kind to people.

28 September at 6:34 | Open on infosec.exchange
the_wiggler

@mwl what in the world is this cover?

28 September at 6:48 | Open on mastodon.social
Sebastian

@mwl
nerds: selfhosting is easy, just do it

also nerds: this is the cover for my new book about selfhosting 👹🐧🧨

I like it 😄

28 September at 6:57 | Open on social.tchncs.de
Guilherme (CWB.social)

@mwl the cover is incredibly appropriate!

28 September at 11:07 | Open on cwb.social
Michael Ormsby

@mwl Aww.. cute little penguins and daemons playing together nicely. Warms the cockles of my heart.

28 September at 12:16 | Open on mastodon.art
Benno :flan_ski:
Camille Fournier

@mwl boosting because this cover is truly a classic

28 September at 13:04 | Open on mastodon.social
nboynorge

@mwl great book written by a great author. I got mine two days ago.
Thank you @mwl for writting it!
28 September at 14:23 | Open on infosec.exchange
WerySkok :verified_think:

@mwl I use Stalwart mail server as it offers all in one solution and ignore rDNS because that's dumb and everything still works

28 September at 14:27 | Open on mastodon.ml
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