@wildekek, hi Willem. Nice seeing you here. Still in the mail business?
iCloud Mail has DNS misconfigured?
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#82I'm seeing 10/10 though, with a custom iCloud domain ("Your hostname outbound.mr.icloud.com is assigned to a server."). What's different?
You got assigned a different outgoing server/PoP.
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#83@wildekek, hi Willem. Nice seeing you here. Still in the mail business?
@aequitas, Hi Johan, nice surpise! After wondering why I couldn't get enough of the movie Office Space, I quit the tech industry completely. Never felt better.
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
The snarky „just don’t use Exchange, duh!“ doesn’t either. It’s a non-solution that armchair experts provide, who aren’t responsible for managing mailing for lots of people.
There is no alternative to Exchange that does not involve Microsoft?
I don’t know any that come close in functionality, configurability, and maintainability. Exchange scales from a one-person handyman to Fortune 500 without a hitch, it comes with an office suite and cloud storage space, you find specialists for it on every corner, and it mostly just works. That’s pretty hard to beat, even if I’m personally more than unhappy to be so dependent on Microsoft, a US product, and closed-source software; there’s just not much I can do about it.
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is no alternative to Exchange that does not involve Microsoft?
I don’t know any that come close in functionality, configurability, and maintainability. Exchange scales from a one-person handyman to Fortune 500 without a hitch, it comes with an office suite and cloud storage space, you find specialists for it on every corner, and it mostly just works. That’s pretty hard to beat, even if I’m personally more than unhappy to be so dependent on Microsoft, a US product, and closed-sou…
what did people do before Exchange Online (or whatever the cloud offering is called)? they just didn't have email?
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don’t know any that come close in functionality, configurability, and maintainability. Exchange scales from a one-person handyman to Fortune 500 without a hitch, it comes with an office suite and cloud storage space, you find specialists for it on every corner, and it mostly just works. That’s pretty hard to beat, even if I’m personally more than unhappy to be so dependent on Microsoft, a US product, and closed-sou…
what did people do before Exchange Online (or whatever the cloud offering is called)? they just didn't have email?
Thing is, I’ve been doing this since before Exchange Online, I know.
People used a few different groupware solutions, worked with bespoke IMAP installations on Linux servers, or (the vast majority) had on-premises Exchange servers running locally. It all required lots of tech wizardry, tinkering, duct tape and hope.
It was a long while before we had turn-key solutions, and you needed actually knowledgeable folks running your IT operations, and nothing was as fully integrated or cheaply available as Exchange Online.
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#88@wildekek, hi Willem. Nice seeing you here. Still in the mail business?
@aequitas, Hi Johan, nice surpise! After wondering why I couldn't get enough of the movie Office Space, I quit the tech industry completely. Never felt better.
Good to hear. I’m self employed now and working on some nice projects. I’ll probably never escape this industry, to much fun stuff to learn still :)
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor The bus factor (aka lottery factor,[1][2] truck factor,[3] or circus factor[4]) is a measurement of the risk resulting from information and capabilities not being shared among team members, derived from the phrase "in case they get hit by a bus".
I think the question is about why someone would want to _increase_ their bus factor for the family
There is a bias in technical knowledge. I used to be huge into self hosting but came to the realization that if I died tomorrow my NAS, domain, email and backups of our family photos would work until they don’t. An unpaid invoice, a cancelled credit card, a failed reboot or maybe the nastiest was plugged into a new network.
So in my case increasing the bus factor refers to: a regular usb drive hooked up to the nas that has an unencrypted ntfs drive with our photos and paperless archive; iCloud email that will stay up; Bitwarden hosted on their end.
Same reason I have a very health life insurance and disability policy.
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It’s a minor (but annoying) issue to make the reason to migrate 1,500 users. Who many of which would still need licenses for Excel anyway. Microsoft being annoying and frustrating and having so many issues is why I have a well paying job in IT.
that sounds like the lump of labor fallacy. there's plenty of things to do in IT besides babysitting hypocrite hypergiants.
I hear you, but some people just want an easy high-paying job where they essentially work a few hours a week. Not everyone wants to fold proteins.