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Writing about running mail
What we learned building this, in the order it turned out to matter. Every post names the product documents its claims rest on.
What a lapsed licence switches off, and what it never touches
From 0.13.0 a lapsed MailDock licence switches off extras in stages. Your incoming mail never stops. Here is the schedule, and why it is shaped this way.
· licensing
A deliverability checklist that is actually in order
The things to check when your mail lands in spam, ordered by how often they are the answer rather than by how interesting they are.
· deliverability · dns
AI on your mail without sending it to a vendor
Bring-your-own inference is not a privacy policy, it is an architecture — and the difference is what a policy can be changed by a press release.
· ai · privacy
Migrating mail off cPanel without losing any
The order of operations that makes a mail migration lossless, what the cPanel connector carries across, and what it cannot.
· migration · cpanel
MTA-STS, explained by what it actually prevents
Mail between servers has had opportunistic TLS for years, and opportunistic is the problem. MTA-STS is the fix, and TLS-RPT is how you find out it is working.
· deliverability · security · dns
The economics of many domains on one server
Per-mailbox pricing is a tax on having a lot of addresses and not many people. Here is where the maths turns over, and where it does not.
· pricing · self-hosting
Why self-host mail again
Self-hosting mail became folklore-level hard, and then most of what made it hard got solved. Here is what actually changed, and what did not.
· self-hosting · deliverability
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