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Self-hosting email has never been easier, but also at the same time never required one to be this careful at establishing **and** maintaining trust. Most proposals to “solve spam” unfortunately fall short (short template for testing anyone’s proposal ). It’s not a racket, it’s that distributed trust is just incredibly difficult. The article’s author has a very narrow view of the email ecosystem and his experience really isn’t sufficient for such generalisations.Įmail is older than the internet, some problems stem from that, but the rest is a result of natural evolution of the ecosystem. Posted in Network Hacks Tagged email, email server, net neutrality Post navigation Maintaining email as something beyond the control of large providers is too important not to. He has something of a manifesto as to how this problem can be addressed, and we think that it’s important enough that you should take a look. This functions essentially as something of a racket, in which large email providers have the power to ensure that any email not generated from amongst themselves is unlikely to reach any of the millions of addresses under their care, and the only recourse an operator of a small email domain has is to use the services of one of them. Since spam is such a widespread problem, as points out it’s less of a case of if your server has this problem, but when. Thus a large email provider will instantly block large IP ranges when it detects they hold a spammer, with the collateral damage of also blocking any legitimate email servers in the same range such that their mail just doesn’t get through.

Spotting and canning spam is computationally expensive, so the easiest way to stop a spammer is to recognize their activity and block it at the network level. has written a lament about how the outlook for anyone running their own mail server now looks bleak.Īt its heart is spam, or indeed the heavy-handed measures taken by large email providers to combat it. Though there are many continuing threats to Internet freedom we can still mostly use the network our way, but with sadness we note that one piece of Internet freedom may have drawn to a close.

It’s a future that almost came to pass for consumers in the 1990s when walled gardens such as AOL or the original incarnation of MSN were all the rage, but thankfully the world took the Internet course. Imagine the Internet had begun its life as a proprietary network from a major software vendor rather than evolved as a distributed network shared by researchers.

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