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Prefetch
Personal blog · prefetch.eu/blogprogrammingweb
Prefetch is a personal blog at prefetch.eu about programming and web. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's 2020 email server guide as the setup reference for self-hosting mail with OpenSMTPD, Dovecot and rspamd. Both commenters say they followed it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /blog/2020/email-server/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-23
What Hacker News says?
I did that a few years ago too. Then decided to just use OpenSMTPD instead of Postfix, keep Dovecot for IMAP and rspamd for signing DKIM. I followed the guide at https://prefetch.eu/blog/2020/email-server/ and got it running relatively smoothly. However, Microsoft (and sometimes Google) kept blocking emails coming from my server's IP, so I just decided to stop messing around and pay migadu 19€ a year for dealing wit…
Comment linking /blog/2020/email-server/
on “Mox – modern, secure, all-in-one email server”Submitted Adventures in making my website: static site generation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMany people are saying it is hard to run a mail server, but I never had any deliverability issue with mine. The most important (well hard because I needed ISP collaboration) step was to get a reverse DNS for the IP. I am sending emails from a few domains, so not too much. And my volume is low (10 per day). I run openbsd and I mostly followed that guide https://prefetch.eu/blog/2020/email-server/
Comment linking /blog/2020/email-server/
on “Poste.io – Complete Mail Server”