Running your own mail server is a lost art

I use MailCow. It's nice, easy to setup.

@retoor cows are sneaky animal who want to murder humans.

I would go full vegan if it means stop breeding these bloodthirthy monsters. Just kill them all.

so is grinding your own flour.

@tosensei i dont think grinding is that hard. You just need a giant grinder

Ask @retoor, she lives in a windmill.

Just imagine if don quichotte was dutch. So many giants

@ANTIASYLUMIST i recommend to just try it.

also: i don't mean in a windmill. i mean by hand. muscle power.

How many people do you know who can write their own HTTP parser (or would even attempt it)?

running your own mail exchange extends it :P

@ANTIASYLUMIST hi me.

yes cuz when i tried to look into it there are people selling you shit but not telling you how it works

modern existence sucks

@BordedDev 1 person I know, @retoor

I actually set up my own mail just last month. It's awesome cause I can get as many throw away emails as I want and no website has my domain blacklisted so they can't fight back... Good for those pesky Times when Websites block or don't allow +suffixes on standard gmail

@Demolishun including gzip compression support as well in Python as C including chunking / propfind / mkcol / upgrade websocket. Thank you very much 🌹

@Demolishun Yeah, she's cool that way, has a bunch of other stuff in her rlib as well. I haven't done it for HTTP but have done it for e-mail before

But still that's 1 (or 2 if you count the mail thing) of the 10-20 people who regular on dR

Careful @retoor your awesome is showing ;P

Art?

@BordedDev did it in java [twice] and in bash [once]. Http is easy.

@netikras Nice! And yeah it's all text, people can probably figure it out without looking at spec but still ask a recent (web)dev if they think they can make their own server.

Well, I'm happier with the ratio, consider my faith in people/devs restored