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

[George Rosamond]

The State of Email, Michael W. Lucas

* note that we are NOT meeting on July 3 but July 10
* 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: You 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.

"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 writt en several shelves of books. But for anyone who has seen him
speak in public dur ing 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 ex pected corny jokes we endure
during his conference presentations.

More likely, you know his name from his grotesque horror fiction. In the
same wa y his technical books are just transcriptions of his
presentations, his fictiona al horror is just a simple reflection of
someone who lives in a haunted house fi lled 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]'