Writing
Tagged “Email”
11 articles
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How I Accidentally Released Self-Hosted Thundermail
I read Mozilla's Thundermail FAQ and realized I'd already built the self-hosted kind. Same Stalwart foundation, opposite ends of the problem, and a chart I made to calm down.
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inbuxa, Ten Days In
Ten days ago I said why inbuxa exists. This is what it has done since: a migration tool you can download, the compliance features people hosting mail for others actually need, my own mail on a cluster, and a demo you…
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How Email Got Hard, and How inbuxa Makes It Easier
Email is a simple idea buried under forty years of layers, each optional on paper and mandatory in practice. inbuxa can't make it simple again, but it can make it right by default.
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Six Days Without GitHub: What inbuxa Became Anyway
On the day inbuxa launched, GitHub suspended my account and everything under it, without notice or a reason. Six days later the code lives on hardware I run, production mail runs on a three-node inbuxa cluster, and the…
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INBUXA Is Here: Why I Forked a Mail Server I Genuinely Admire
Yesterday I gave you a name and nothing else. Today the curtain goes up. INBUXA is a mail and collaboration server, its console and its webmail, built as one suite with every feature in the install — and this is the…
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Something Is Coming
I've been sitting on something for a while now. It has a name and a website with almost nothing on it, and I can't tell you anything else yet. That's on purpose.
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ihasmail, One Year On: I Threw It All Away Except the Name
A year ago I moved my mail to Stalwart and wanted a JMAP webmail to go with it. There wasn't one, so I wrote one, took it down the wrong road, deleted it, and started again — keeping only the joke domain I had already…
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ihasmail-oneshot: From a Bare Server to Mail and Webmail in One Command
ihasmail has always assumed you already run a Stalwart mail server. ihasmail-oneshot is for everyone who doesn't yet — one command that sets up Stalwart and ihasmail together, connected, with certificates, your first…
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OpenPGP and Email: The Hype, the Truth, and the Falsehoods
Encrypted email never became a mainstream habit, and the usual explanation — bad tooling — is wrong. The problems are structural, better UX doesn't fix them, and the privacy win that actually landed needed nobody's…
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Breaking the Chains
Email is the system nobody wants to touch, which is exactly why so many organizations are still on Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory. Why moving is hard, why it's worth it, and how to move to Stalwart Mail and…
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Understanding DNSSEC and Its Importance
DNS was built on trust in 1983 and still answers anyone who asks. DNSSEC lets a resolver prove an answer is genuine. What it does, what it doesn't, why so few domains bother, and why mail servers should.