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A few years ago I used to help my father replace wheels in his car shop.

The lift was rather small and you couldn't get out of the car easily when you placed the car in the correct position for the lift's arms. We placed the car about a meter from the correct position, got out, pushed it forward and placed the arms.

For this to work you need to make sure the parking brakes are not engaged.

Am I the only one to stick with the std lib, read the docs and changelogs carefully, and implement functions I really need the way my application makes use of them?

I learned the hard way, that dependencies kill projects.

Not saying this isn't great, thanks for creating it! It does have its use cases, of course.

Hey, mailcow founder here!

That’s one of the reasons I stopped working on hosted mail. It has not turned to anything better with big companies putting their hands over it. It’s more controlled now but the same crap as before, just as dangerous and a bit more expensive.

Currently working on a system with as much control as possible but piggybacking existing providers' transports.

Centralizing power is a good point.

It feels like a huge dependency with a bunch of money involved.

I cannot _not_ see it clumping to a sentiment comparable to "you either AWS' or have no idea what cloud/network/cluster means".

We use these things like it’s actually "something". It’s not. We don’t build things with it. We configure other people’s software.

It’s born to be promoted as the next big enterprise stuff. You either know how to configure it or are not enterprise-worthy.

And that farts. Being dependent on someone else’s stuff has never turned out good.

Well, I mean. You can also not give a duck and squeeze out all the money. Work a job, abandon it and jump on the next train.

Feels useless, doesn’t it?

Even though I sold mailcow and stopped working on it in the past months, it warms my heart SO MUCH to see people using it. :) Really, thank you.

I have some ideas for a proper successor which would be much more scaleable, modern, flexible and would be more focused to use existing transports for piggybacking mail. A fully and safely encrypted mail storage as well as a cool interface to invite for encrypted sessions etc. Smtpd and imapd using modern Python modules.

Providers found out it was easier to block private senders instead of developing good filtering mechanisms. I kind of understand this decision, but spammers simply abuse services like Sendgrid or create spam accounts on MS.

So… nothing really changed in regards of spam. We just lose actually *wanted* mails or have to look into the Junk folders more often, all while newsletters get on the priority lane.

That makes me unsure about developing anything in this regard. :(

André

[dead] 4 years ago

Obviously this isn’t a perfect solution but will help in some occasions debugging applications.

Found while searching for such a solution, credits belong to the author.