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link Englishfedilink 2 years ago4·arrow-up Use just regular !lemmy@lemmy.ml
link Englishfedilink 2 years ago1arrow-up 2·arrow-down I take “federated email” to refer to a juxtaposition with normal email implementation which harkens back to how it was in the 90s or early 00s where you didn’t need to be registered on many SMTP servers in order to use it and it’s stripped of server-side validation. There’s some discussion on this topic in the fediverse.
You’re right that the default current implementation is already federated.
link Englishfedilink 2arrow-up 2·arrow-down 2 years agoedit-2 Your own email server requires near 100% uptime or you risk not receiving critical emails. If a remote email server is trying to contact your email server and it can’t it’s only going to retry a few times and then give up. Hosting this yourself sounds great until you realize high uptime is not cheap and requires constant attention.
Setting it up securely can be difficult depending on your understanding of server infrastructure as well as protocols like DNS. You need to set up SPF, DKIM, DMARC, etc in order to prevent someone from faking an email from your server.
Of course, federated email does not use SPF/DKIM/DMARC because the whole point is that someone from another server could use your server to send an email (hence the federation). Open email servers were common 20 years ago but very rare today. That makes setup easier, but the main caveat is that most known non-federated email servers will reject email from servers that don’t have SPF/DKIM/DMARC because they generally end up being havens for bots and spam since there is no verification or authenticity of the sender.
As someone who self hosts a lot of things, I would never self host my email. If i did I would be paying for two boxes in different parts of the world on different ISPs to provide that uptime. I would definitely set it up securely and not as a federated server otherwise it would be practically unusable for day to day emails.
This email is talking to you as a user of other libraries not yours, not as a server owner.
“Alternatively, server owners can purchase a Plex Pass, which will grant you continued remote streaming of libraries that you have been given access to.”
As communicated previously, Plex pass users also get the benefit of the “Remote watch pass.”