Notices by Alex Schroeder 🐝 (kensanata@octodon.social), page 8

@tomasino haha 😆

If I were a mean one I’d just tell them to use official channels: https://www.emacs.co.uk/contact-us/
But I’m not. In my imagination, though… also talking about it on social media, I guess.

Weirdest email in a long time: somebody sends me a report saying their emacs26-common package doesn't update. When I ask why I’m getting the mail and say that this seems like a typo it turns out the searched for "Emacs email" in DuckDuckGo and got my email address. 🤪

@mrb @jlelse @selea The amount of work involved to set it up. The amount of maintenance involved to keep it running. The amount of reading I have to do. Having to bear the uncertainty and doubt of it all. I hosted my own email for a while and I don't want to do it anymore.

@selea Just skimming that blog post, it would seem that there's maybe a comma missing in this line?
non_smtpd_milters = inet:localhost:8891,inet:localhost:8893milter_default_action = accept

@selea Hah, the point of my recent investigation into using migadu.com was exactly my wish to avoid hosting my own mailserver. 😃
@jlelse

@jlelse I followed the migadu.com recommendation and used this:
v=DMARC1; p=none; fo=1; rua=mailto:...
Makes me think I should just set p=reject.
@selea

@selea Ah. One more reason mailing lists are dying, haha. I guess I don't mind because I don't participate in any.
@jlelse

@jlelse Yeah. My main issues were simply: 1. argh, reading reports, and 2. the only benefit seems to be setting it to p=reject, do I dare do it? This conversation makes me think that I probably want to, and that I should probably wait for some more reports before doing it. 😃

@jlelse I think the first thing I'll do is simply wait for a few more reports. Let's see how many there are, first of all. 😃

@jlelse What does "Google is excepting my mails with DKIM, SPF and DMARC after just a few conversations with Gmail users" mean, exactly? You had DKIM and SPF and Gmail marked your mails as spam some of the time and now it doesn't do it any more? Or are you just saying you have all three enabled and your mail gets delivered, but you don't know whether enabling DMARC made a difference?

@codesections Hah, only one answer allowed even though the article ends in "I think we should aspire to be like Alan Kay and do all three."

@zatnosk I got it to run with OpenMW and flatpak in case you want to try without Windows? https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2019-07-12_Morrowind

@lindsays At the time the examples and explanations for the ledger software I was trying to use helped me understand what all this double accounting stuff was. Perhaps it's still useful even if you don't use the software?
(Ledger is a command-line program and thus doesn't match your requirements.)

@deshipu Ouch

@deshipu because you need to write documentation for yourself, or because you were asked to write documentation for somebody else?

@deshipu strong words!

@amdt Yeah, my wife was also surprised by my association and that's why I decided to ask whether anybody else felt the same way.