Subj : Re: Gmail Conspiracy
To   : Rob Mccart
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Sun Mar 02 2025 08:00:16

  Re: Re: Gmail Conspiracy
  By: Rob Mccart to AARON THOMAS on Sat Mar 01 2025 01:56 am

 > What exactly will an eMail server do? eMail seems to be a light enough duty
 > thing that it wouldn't require a lot of processing power or storage unless
 > you're doing something really big, like at a corporate level.

Running an email server at home is an interesting project - in 2000, I ran an email server with inbound and outbound (POP/IMAP) email, mailing lists and a small web site on a Pentium 1 system. It doesn't take a lot of horsepower, a Raspberry Pi could handle it all.

The problem now? SPAM and mail providers. The same companies agressively blocking inbound email are doing so knowing that anyone running their own mail server is *not* running on their service, exposing their mail to search indexers, selling ads to you, etc. They'd much rather you just give up and use their email service.

They may not even block based on your mail content and setup, but block your mail because you're on an IP address that looks suspicious. Lots of luck getting off of a blocklist...
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