I personally just use postfix for SMTP, dovecot for mailbox, and spamassassin/sieve for spam filtering. A lot of guides and documentation out there for these common services.

I then just choose a web front end for accessing my email. For myself, I actually close off all external/public access for email retrieval. So the only open port to my email is port 25 for sending email to me. Accessing the web front end can only be done on my local LAN or over a Tor onion service with a client key. That way I can ensure access to my emails is locked down.

I've been hosting my own email for 20 years now with several ISPs over that time and have never had issues with port 25 being blocked. Maybe it is more common outside the USA?

Most recipients these days are also validating more using SPF/DKIM than IP blocklists. If I ever come across a recipient that is blocking my IP I have a relay that I can use for that specific domain.

All else fails, hosting your own email services with a cloud hosting provider or colocation service is still better and provides more privacy/security than using one of the big public email providers.

I'm surprised by the number of bitcoiners that don't host their own email. Being a sovereign individual is such a big ideal among bitcoiners and yet so many choose to have their email services hosted by a third-party provider.

Email still today plays a huge role in our online identities and communication. Almost every service we sign up for requests an email address either for some type of verification purpose or communications. Having a third party host your email allows that provider to be privy to all your email information. What services you use, what you buy, where you shop, your acquaintances, and more is all information that can be gleaned from your email.

Hosting your email should be as important to bitcoiners as hosting your own bitcoin node.

Just saw Antman. I enjoyed it. That's why I just don't trust critics anymore. Last several movies I've seen have received bad critic reviews but good audience scores.

Someone woke up and chose violence. lol

I thought that was fake for a moment. But judging from the comments here, apparently it is real. Haha. Being verified the Nostr way is so much better.

Thanks!

If you're not first, you're last!

Sounds like you're just a "third-wave" bitcoiner. 😆

This is the way.

This is a cool idea. It would also help your own feed since you wouldn't get as many replies from people that likely didn't want to see your post in the first place and only replied because they felt they had to respond as a contrarian.

Finally NIP-05 verified!

So I found out I had to convert my npub to hex format in the json file to get it to work. Now it should be correct.

OK, I think I got this NIP-05 identifier configured right with one of my domains.

Very true

Define rich. There are way more millionaires than there are famous people I've heard of.

I hope not.

I really hope Nostr expands beyond bitcoiners. How amazing would it be to have all your social circle using Nostr?

Zapping is entirely voluntary though. If someone zaps you and also listens to your podcast, it means they're OK with zapping you while also sitting through ads.

So many bitcoiners using Nostr. It is wild!

Thanks!

Ok, now I just need to get my profile NIP-05 verified with one of my domains. I'll do that another day soon. Getting there. Nostr is pretty cool!

First post on Nostr. Finally getting around to checking it out. Going down the rabbit hole...