No joke there, you’re completely correct.

I found some of my old code a while back that said: Got interrupted killing children? better stop.

Hey it’s me ur brother…

It’s always impressive to me that instead of sending billions of dollars to Microsoft, the US government could have had an entire operating system that caters exactly to them. They could have then given back in the form of commits improving the software for the rest of us too.

Sometimes the issue is marked as fixed but a new version won’t be coming out for months and you’re simply told to compile it yourself only to find it has literally hundreds of carefully tuned compilation dependencies and environment specific settings that aren’t documented.

Thanks for the tip! I just subscribed.

As everyone has mentioned SPF/DKIM/DMARC is the absolute minimum. If you’re going to be sending your own mail then a PTR record is absolutely required. Also get registered dnswl.org and other whitelist sites. Be prepared to spend some time tracking down why the occasional email goes to spam. Then there’s the onslaught of bots and hackers constantly trying to break in.

I’ve used Mailu to host my own mail server, and at my work we have a standard Postfix/Dovecot setup.

My recommendation is to use Fastmail, Proton, or some other service to save you the headache.

You can tell your age by the fact that you were emailing an exe file.