[talk] July 10: The State of Email, Michael W. Lucas

[George Rosamond]

The State of Email, Michael W. Lucas

* note that we DID NOT meet on July 3
* MWL will be remote, but many will be onsite to watch him over video

2024-07-10 @ 18:45 EDT (22:45 UTC) - NYU Tandon Engineering Building
(new), 370 Jay St, 7th Floor kitchen area, Brooklyn (directly across Jay
St from National Grid office). Closest subway exits in order are Jay St
- MetroTech Station (A, C, R, & F Trains) Borough Hall (4 & 5 Trains).

Notice: Everyone should RSVP for this meeting at rsvp AT
lists.nycbug.org by July 9th. You should receive an autoresponse email.
Your email address is sufficient verification for entry.

Remote viewers also need to RSVP so they can get the streaming
information on the day of the meeting.

"It's impossible to run your own email!" Not quite. But you must do it
carefully and correctly. This talk discusses the current state of email,
with a focus on the small independent server operator. What do you need
to run your own mail? How can you use protocols like DKIM and DMARC
without wrecking your ability to communicate with the outside world?

Based on Lucas' book "Run Your Own Mail Server." The first chapter is
online https://mwl.io/archives/22653

Michael W. Lucas' name may ring a bell for some in the BSD community.
He's written several shelves of books. But for anyone who has seen him
speak in public during Ante COVID days, it was clear they are mere
transcriptions of his rambling p resentations. For this NYC*BUG meeting,
he is unlikely to edit out any of his expected corny jokes we endure
during his conference presentations.

More likely, you know his name from his grotesque horror fiction. In the
same way his technical books are just transcriptions of his
presentations, his fictional horror is just a simple reflection of
someone who lives in a haunted house filled with (pet) rats in Detroit.

Offsite Participation: We plan to stream MWL Zoom call via NYC*BUG
Website. Q&A will be via IRC on Libera.chat channel #nycbug - Please
preface your questions with '[Q]'