Email is slowly becoming centralised unfortunately as small providers are pushed out by big companies. So it won't be long until we have global email outages.
Ham radio operators practice disaster ops, don't they ? How about indie email providers ?
We practice giving up on the whole ordeal as we have to send another damn email to Microsoft asking for them to investigate their standards-non-compliant black box email filtering systems which even they don't understand.
Stubborn self hoster reporting for duty
same
I tried to go the self-hosted route. It became impossible to manage. I don't know how many hours I sunk in to figuring out why, seemingly randomly, my emails were being marked as spam by Google. If you can't get through to Google, you're effectively invisible for most people
I had the same problem as well. Important emails wouldn't get delivered to recipients. I ultimately had to throw in the towel.
Pushed out = blocks as spam in some cases, for self hosted people anyway
You can even use email for a Whatsapp-like IM experience: https://delta.chat/
There really is no technical reason to use Whatsapp anymore
Very intriguing, thank you!
Oh that looks cool. Will investigate this. Thanks.