I’m sure it’s been mentioned somewhere upthread, but to reiterate, the concentration levels in the email market have been measured.[1] The OP on Twitter and elsewhere isn’t wrong that it’s a PITA to set up and run an SMTP server, but to do it right for an SMB or even a large enterprise offers very few benefits, and that has a lot less to do with reputation, and a lot more to do with overall service reliability and cost.
What I’ve said elsewhere is that what consumers, enterprises, and SMBs all need is a healthy selection of services from which to choose. The problem with the entry costs is that you have to be able to leverage a cloud infrastructure to play these days. That’s not cheap. Eliot [1] https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/IMC2021_savage > On 13 Sep 2022, at 22:54, John Devine via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> wrote: > > Signed PGP part > Its tricky I agree, but not impossible, I started back in the late1990’s I > think, and have had 3 mail servers running in that time, so around 20 years > now, it started as a hobby for friends, then just slowly expanded into > friends business’s and then there was no stopping it, now due to the volume > of mail on my servers, I have no choice but to continue it LoL. Why I hear > you ask, well it would be up to me to handle all of the transferring to the > big places you talk of, and I really don't have the time or inclination to do > that, so I continue. > > I try to keep up with everything which I think I do, spam received is always > the biggest problem for me, its' a fine balance for what I want to receive, > and what my ‘clients’ don't want me to lose……. > > I have never made any money from what I do, like I say, it started as an > interesting hobby………. > > But I like not being part of the big corporations, and so do my ‘clients’ > > I seem to have coped so far, at times I have thought of packing it all in, > but something always stopes me from hitting the kill switch…….. > > John Devine > >> On 13 Sep 2022, at 21:18, Chris Adams via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> wrote: >> >> Once upon a time, Jim Popovitch <jim...@domainmail.org> said: >>> I agree. Self hosted email is not hard, and it's just not super easy. :) >>> >>> The much harder aspect of email is getting your peers, family, and >>> friends to adopt encryption. >> >> Self-hosted email is hard (or really, impossible) for a high enough >> percentage of the Internet population that it is effectively 100%. My >> father has been using computers since well before I was born, is still >> working on rockets today, but I have to explain email technicalities to >> him sometimes, things that we just take for granted. >> >> It's similar in a way to how blogs were popular before a succession of >> social media megacorps took over; the average techy could pop up >> something on their ISP-provided web space back in the day, but the >> average individual online now could not possibly do that. Even dealing >> with a hosted WordPress or the like is beyond most. And even the >> density of capabale people is way to low to support friends-and-family. >> >> -- >> Chris Adams <c...@cmadams.net> >> _______________________________________________ >> mailop mailing list >> mailop@mailop.org >> https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop > > > > >
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