Bizzare. My self hosted email, which everyone told me was stupid to host myself has been sending and receiving just fine.
Of course I haven't received a single email because every important email is sent via Microsoft but I still feel superior because I'm not affected
Receiving is easy for personal mail I would say I receive 99% of the time.
Sending out is harder but that 1% when I send something I need it delivered.
Hosting e-mail for friends and family is harder and mostly what I would call stupid.
My iCloud email account is working just fine too. Security through obscurity ;)
Just don’t tell us how many nines you have, hey?
It is not difficult to keep a mail server online.
FreeBSD(ZFS+jails old but gold) + postfix + dovecot.
Ha nearly the same setup here, FreeBSD/ZFS/opensmtp/dovecot/rspamd
And yes uptime (with short outages(updates etc)) is not that important for a mail-server, since the sender re-transfers in intervals (mine is 5min the 8 then 15 then 60 then 180 then something up to 2days)
So the uptime for the service is 100% (maybe 99.999) over the last 8 years.
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infinitely many, so far...
I mean, I can't speak for him but I also run a small server and I think I just beat MS365 in nines because of this outage.
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