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I think most other spam filters can get pretty good at you mark mail as spam and train it.

No idea about push. IMAP does have the ability to keep a connection open and get notifications and some mobile clients support that. My guess is, if the provider offers an app they probably support pushing to it somehow.

It’s funny because the way I describe the concept of federation to people is to compare it to email.

“You know how you can email somebody and it doesn’t matter if they’re using Gmail, Yahoo, Exchange, etc? Just apply that concept to other services and that’s what federated means.”

So yeah you can host your own email just like you can host your own mastodon instance, Lemmy, Calckey, kbin, etc.

I’ve been a professional sysadmin for years, including managing email systems covering tens of thousands of users.

Don’t do it.

Find a host you like and just use that. If you have to pay that’s probably better, that (hopefully) means you’ll have a better privacy policy, no ads, etc.

Email as a concept goes back to 1981 with tons of bolt-ons and changes along the way. You’ll go years with everything working fine, then suddenly you’ll find yourself sinking a lot of time into it when something suddenly doesn’t work.

Plus you can have the most modern setup in the world then find yourself dealing with a client that’s using the default sendmail config and refuses to change anything, now you’ve got to create exceptions, blah blah blah.

I used to run my own email for years. Started on qmail, postfix+dovecot. Anti-spam (spamassassin for a while, rspamd), spf+dkim+dmarc, srs, arc-signing for forwards. All kinds of other tools, even wrote some of my own. I’ve learned a lot and pretty much ran the gamut to be honest.

So all that said, nowadays I just host with mxroute. Bought a lifetime plan. There’s features it doesn’t have but it’s good enough to get emails and a lot easier than self hosting.

I generally recommend finding a host that has the features you want at a price that seems fair. Email is the kind of thing that needs to just always work.

Once you set it up sure, it’s rock solid. Until one day you realize your emails are getting dropped and there’s some new thing you’ve gotta look into. Let somebody else handle it.

It was designed to work with “alternatively obtained” games such as DRM-free games. While Crackpipe can be used with cracked games, it does not encourage or condone piracy.

People, come on.

First of all the name, the logo of a pirate, using the terminology “alternatively obtained” - this is clearly for sharing cracked/pirated games. Any plausible deniability is out the window. Especially with using copyrighted game box arts in the screenshots.

If you changed the language to be something like:

It’s designed to assist with sharing games with friends by providing a mechanism for downloading and managing game installations. Please review your game’s licenses to ensure this is an acceptable use before sharing.

Then you’d be able to say “this is meant for sharing freeware/shareware easily and making it a social experience.”

Also change the name and logo, and get those copyrighted box arts out of the screenshots and just use art from open source games SuperTaxKart, OpenRA, etc. (Technically those may be copyrighted, depends on each game, but at least you’re not dealing with fucking Sony by showing a Spider-Man game).