Re: [PLUG] Self-hosted email server in Docker

["Alan D. Salewski via plug" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

On 2024-09-10 09:10:49, Rich Kulawiec via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> spake thus:
> On Sun, Sep 08, 2024 at 04:32:06PM -0400, JP Vossen via plug wrote:
> > I read the (short) article but am not familiar with "Mailcow" and I
> > didn't look into it.  As we've discussed, running your own mail server
> > is not trivial for a variety of reasons, and this doesn't really talk
> > about that.  Still, maybe interesting.
>
> Interesting, yes; but there are some problems with this (based on
> a quick read/skim of the basic documentation):
[...]

> 5. The list of features includes this:
>
> 	"Allow mailbox users to toggle TLS enforcement for inbound and outbound messages"
>
> Permitting users to tinker with security mechanisms is, and always
> has been, an astonishingly bad idea.
>
> 	[ Which is one of the numerous reasons why "spam folders" are a
> 	worst practice in mail system engineering.  Maybe I should give
> 	a talk about that. ]

I'm interested to hear that talk.

-Al

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