Carlos Fenollosa personal blog
After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel
Many companies have been trying to disrupt email by making it proprietary. So far, they have failed. Email keeps being an open protocol. Hurray? No hurray. Email is not distributed anymore. You just cannot create another first-class node of this ne
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Infrastructure & DevOpsLife, Learning & Writing2022
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 4, 2022 | After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel by carlesfe | 1,887 | 728 |
| Dec 28, 2023 | After self-hosting email for 23 years I have thrown in the towel (2022) by ilamont | 61 | 97 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 11 Hacker News comments by 10 different people, from Nov 2022 to Dec 2025.
Most recent:
- telephone3 · Dec 16, 2025
- bariumbitmap · Nov 19, 2025
- andai · Oct 4, 2025
- andai · Oct 4, 2025
- sedatk · Feb 23, 2024
- greenhexagon · Feb 19, 2024
