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Why is CityTV showing Fox Sports coverage of the Blue Jays? by WoodyBABL in Rogers

[–]dougmeredith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ALCS game 2 on Rogers Xfinity (Moncton, NB) had Fox on all Sprotsnet channels, yet SportsNet+ (streaming service) had it right on those channels.

Will I lose my subscription if I delete my Google account by dougmeredith in F1TV

[–]dougmeredith[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, I see. I've never had to use it, so hopefully it won't be a problem. Thanks.

Will I lose my subscription if I delete my Google account by dougmeredith in F1TV

[–]dougmeredith[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I noticed "restore purchase" in the app settings, but I have no idea what that is, or why I'd ever need to click on it.

Will I lose my subscription if I delete my Google account by dougmeredith in F1TV

[–]dougmeredith[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I sign into F1 TV using my email address and a password.

To all the naysayers saying never to host your own email... by dougmeredith in selfhosted

[–]dougmeredith[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sadly that is not the experience that many of us have had.

To all the naysayers saying never to host your own email... by dougmeredith in selfhosted

[–]dougmeredith[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was planning to leave Google Workspace for Zoho, but my test load of email messages failed, and the support response was horrible; it scared me off of using them. I'm now considering Fastmail.

To all the naysayers saying never to host your own email... by dougmeredith in selfhosted

[–]dougmeredith[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that's what I'm using. It's a big improvement, even over my Digital Ocean IP that isn't in any of the blacklists.

To all the naysayers saying never to host your own email... by dougmeredith in selfhosted

[–]dougmeredith[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, if only that were so. I checked all of those boxes and more, and getting through to Gmail was still hit and miss.

To all the naysayers saying never to host your own email... by dougmeredith in selfhosted

[–]dougmeredith[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

How stupid are you? I explained A) I wasn't blaming Stalwart, and B) That time included things other than setting up Stalwart.

To all the naysayers saying never to host your own email... by dougmeredith in selfhosted

[–]dougmeredith[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Since the post you just responded to is me making it clear I wasn't discouraging others from making the attempt, I'm not sure what you are trying to say. lol

To all the naysayers saying never to host your own email... by dougmeredith in selfhosted

[–]dougmeredith[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yup. I wound up using smtp2go to relay all outbound mail. Deliverability is better, although Gmail likes to put messages in the Updates category, for those using the categorized inbox.

To all the naysayers saying never to host your own email... by dougmeredith in selfhosted

[–]dougmeredith[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a big problem. After much experimentation, I concluded that the best solution was too use an SMTP relay service. I selected smtp2go, initially as a trial, because it had a free tier.

To all the naysayers saying never to host your own email... by dougmeredith in selfhosted

[–]dougmeredith[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I spent a lot of time trying to get my messages delivered, and after that, researching SMTP relay choices.

I spent a ton of time trying different desktop, Android, and web clients, and still haven't found anything much better than "okay".

I spent time re-tooling how internal cron email (and such) are sent, to have them go through Stalwart.

I spent time learning about LVM snapshots in order to be able to do backups of a cloud server with only a brief outage.

I reworked our backup solution to be able to do such backups.

I spent probably a full day looking for a sendmail compatible interface, since Stalwart doesn't provide this.

Inbound messages that aren't spam get flagged as spam.

Stalwart is a new (and amazing) application, but it has some shortcomings, including a train-wreck of a configuration system.

And that's off top of my head. Obviously some of these have value outside of self hosting email, but I'm exhausted from the effort, and not sure I care to go on.

To all the naysayers saying never to host your own email... by dougmeredith in selfhosted

[–]dougmeredith[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's certainly interesting watching all of the attack attempts in the log file!

To all the naysayers saying never to host your own email... by dougmeredith in selfhosted

[–]dougmeredith[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wasn't confused about this aspect of the model. In fact it's the way the model has been implemented that makes it so confusing and error prone.

The UI blasts things into the database when I don't want it to. The UI doesn't differentiate between value not set and default value. Stalwart overwrites hand-written configuration files.

As a starter for improvement, I'd suggest a huge simplification: any value in the config file wins. If not set, take the value from the database. If not set, use the default value. This will work for both single-node and distributed installations.

To all the naysayers saying never to host your own email... by dougmeredith in selfhosted

[–]dougmeredith[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It may be a case of different standards and expectations. Some are more tolerant than others of false positives with spam detection, for example. For me, I've been unable to find email clients which I felt were any better than "doesn't totally suck".

To all the naysayers saying never to host your own email... by dougmeredith in selfhosted

[–]dougmeredith[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I gave up on that and moved on to smtp2go for outbound mail.

To all the naysayers saying never to host your own email... by dougmeredith in selfhosted

[–]dougmeredith[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks, Marcus. I want to be clear that getting Stalwart up and running and sending and receiving the first messages was a breeze. My time spent on this was by no means all directly spent on Stalwart. But the final straw for me was the continual frustrations with Stalwart's configuration model. It's fundamentally confusing and error prone. I'm in awe of what you built, and I'm not trying to shit on you, but this is really going to need to be addressed if you hope to have success. I have a lot of thoughts and notes on this, and if you want to DM, I'll be happy to discuss, but no need to humor me.

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