[$] Book review: Run Your Own Mail Server

The most common piece of advice given to users who ask aboutrunning their own mail server is don't. Setting upand securing a mail server in2024 is not for the faint of heart, norfor anyone without copious spare time. Spammers want to flood inboxeswith ads for questionable supplements, attackers want to abuse serversto send spam (or worse), and getting the big providers to accept mailfrom small servers is a constant uphill battle. Michael W. Lucas,however, encourages users to thumb their nose at the "EmailEmpire", and declare email independence. His self-published book,Run Your Own MailServer, provides a manual (and manifesto) for users who areinterested in the challenge.