Self-Hosting

Sometimes, you see something and think “I can do that better.” And sometimes, you actually act on it.

That’s how MailShield started.

The itch

E-mail security is a mess of protocols bolted onto technology from 1971. DMARC was supposed to help. It lets domain owners define policies for unauthenticated e-mail and sends aggregate reports back so you can see what’s happening. Great in theory. In practice, those reports are XML files that look like this:

Everyone makes backups, right? Yeah, me neither. I mean, I do make backups, but not as regularly as I should.

Every Mac that was sold in the last 15 years (or thereabouts) comes with an excellent piece of software called Time Machine. It’s set and forget, You do need a place to backup to, though. I own a NAS that runs Debian 10 and it currently has about 💾 12TB worth of storage space and there is still a few TBs free. Perfect place for my 🔄 Time Machine backups, right?