On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 07:14:01PM +0300, Reco wrote:
So it boils down to "MTA needs care on a regular basis" and "some blacklist can add your MTA for no good reason". First one is universal (applies to any Internet-facing service), second one can be beat with a creative use of hosting. Also, https://mxtoolbox.com. A non-free service, but a useful one.
Way to oversimplify, and "creative use of hosting" basically means "hope and pray". It's also not actually true that there's hosting magic which makes you immune to blacklist stupidity unless your hosting is gmail or something equally too large to block.
With all it's disadvantages, SMTP is one of the few examples of successful federated (i.e. - non-centralized) form of Internet communications. The other ones are slowly dying IRC and dead XMPP. So I disagree. They can put all the fancy additions (like SPF, DMARC and DANE) to it, but SMTP has a strong chance to outlive a current generation.
We can agree to disagree. I think like the regular old telephone, people will suddenly realize that as a communication tool the noise is outweighing the signal and drop it. In my experience with the younger generation, they already don't consider email a primary means of communication except within a closed environment like a school. In business the trend is increasingly toward outsourcing email to a large cloud provider (e.g., MS/outlook) so a future in which businesses mainly communicate between a small number of very large providers is not all that remote.
I somehow doubt that Debian project membership requires to be an expert in any MTA, or to have any system administration skills for that matter. In another words, of course it's not normal, but is something that's to be expected.
So which is it? A small email domain isn't a big deal to manage or it is?