I’d never heard of Lukas. He’s apparently been a self-publishing tour de force for over a decade and has been writing for over three. I imagine he created this Kickstarter as a means of promotion and as a method of gauging interest before committing to writing this book.

Running your own server is sisyphean in the face of the email cartel, as Carlos Fenollosa and Jamie Zawinski will tell you.

i do this and it's not very difficult; granted, I don't send a lot of emails. outlook is the strictest of the big providers, but after you deal with their delivery support it'll work.

you pretty much have to rent a VPS unfortunately, most ISPs block port 25 outgoing to prevent Grandma's botnetted Gateway from sending spam email

I've been trying for months to get email working on TankieTube. I finally got the local postfix server working but the problem now is that Spamhaus is blocking my domain and won't respond to my emails.

Edit:

Stop self-hosting your email and pay [provider]

I tried doing it with protonmail's API but emails originating from my application still get blocked, even though they should look to the relay servers like they're coming from smtp.protonmail.ch afaik. Emails sent from the protonmail web interface with the same return address deliver just fine.

adding this to the stack of projects i'll never finish (next to the stack of books i'll never read)