Email

I’ve recently read Using Plaintext Email by Kev and completely agreed with his reasoning on why reasons noted on the website are a bit silly, but that also got me thinking, why is Plain-text really better? Why do I personally prefer it? Although I am one of those nerds preferring to use command line email client (well, not really anymore, because ever since I started using Emacs I ditched mutt for mu4e, but I digress…) I can responsibly state that I would prefer it even if I was using GUI client such as Thunderbird....

My current email client of choice is Mu4e within Emacs. There’s plethora of reasons why I have settled for it instead of some other client and why in the end, I transitioned to it from mutt, but that’s perhaps a topic for some future article. Setting up Mu4e in the beginning was pretty simple as I had only one email account and used asynchronous email function to queue emails and then flush them all in one go....

For most of my private email needs I prefer to use Mu4e within Emacs. It is a module of Emacs which basically searches through Mu index file. Naturally, to be able to index something, you first need to fetch it. In this case “it” are email messages from the server, or, my mailbox if you wish. For this particular purpose OfflineIMAP utility has served me well over the time, and to be honest, my needs are quite simple:...

More than 3 years ago I’ve written an article about self-hosting email. Throughout the years that setup was adjusted, migrated and changed in various ways. I’ve used it on the FreeBSD, Debian, Ubuntu since the original article which was based on CentOS. Now, I’m trying to set it up again on the CentOS, this time on the CentOS 8 and components to achieve the whole flow are changed a bit, and there are even some new ones....

There are many reasons why would somebody want to host their own email server. There are many advantages for doing this but there are also many drawbacks. Setting up your own mail server can certainly be a great learning experience filled with discoveries about different set of technologies, protocols and how stuff works in general. Hosting your own email server can also be a huge pain in the ass, especially if you start to have problems with spamming but I won’t go too deep into pros or the cons since, if you’re already here, you probably read a thing or two and decided for yourself if you want to host your own email server or not....