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Cake day: January 1st, 2024

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  • It’s always the same. Many people tell you how a software is not a replacement for other software. Of course it isn’t, because otherwise it would be exactly the same piece of software.

    Tell me a replacement for LaTeX, Postfix, zsh, vim or OpenSSH. There isn’t, because these are the best from my point of view.

    Instead of recommending one alternative, you sometimes need to combine them. The most powerful tools are btw combinable in a tool chain and the best are controllable from common scripting or programming languages.








  • I’ve been self-hosting Postfix for several years and it’s not difficult, if you’re absolutely confident what you do. I don’t recommend it if you don’t know basic behaviors and internals of SMTP and relaying. Also you need to know how to secure your server so you don’t get spammed a lot and getting hammered with brute force attacks.

    From time to time you need to react to delivery problems. Most interesting one is perhaps Microsoft, which you need to ask to whitelist your server or your email won’t be accepted.