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How many IP addresses are enough for robust email network performance? Are dedicated IPs just for bulk mail? Our delivery expert gives answers and best practices https://lightmeter.io/dedicated-email-ip-vs-shared-ip-best-practices-for-self-hosting/ #Postfix #SMTP #SelfHosting

Indian Govt. body #NIXI announces free mailboxes for all owners of `.in` domains, including 10GB storage. How will this affect #GSuite and #MS365 uptake among the world's 2nd largest population? Free vs Free 🤔 https://www.livemint.com/technology/tech-news/nixi-announces-personalized-email-service-for-in-domain-users-11624096107646.html

Just merged: support for emails delivered by `postfix/local` - these messages are now searchable using the Message Detective, as requested by B. Jucker https://gitlab.com/lightmeter/controlcenter/-/issues/516

Fix just merged for crashing bug reported by Dominik G.: When log data is streaming via sockets and events start and end at same timestamp https://gitlab.com/lightmeter/controlcenter/-/issues/508#note_608071474

How do #DKIM and #DMARC affect email deliverability? Lightmeter's resident delivery expert Victor Minev lays out the nuance in this comprehensive explainer #NotChristmas https://lightmeter.io/how-do-dkim-and-dmarc-affect-email-deliverability/

The May newsletter is out, highlighting a glut of new features, including self-support for mailbox end-users, and some #YCombinator news. Subscribe for an immediate inbox injection 📬 https://lightmeter.io/may-newsletter

Public Key Infrastructure's forgotten strength: email signing -- Forbes argues that executives should use PKI as the "gold standard" in authentication https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2021/05/26/pkis-forgotten-strength-signing/ #OpenPGP #asymmetricencryption

Delayed, dropped, bounced? Now you can find the fate of any email fast, and so can your mailbox users – without your help Smiling face with sunglasses Self-service email tracing for #Postfix is here thanks to the "Message Detective" in today's Lightmeter 1.7 release https://lightmeter.io/lightmeter-1-7-email-tracing-for-mailbox-users/ #Email #MessageTracer

Email delivery vs email #deliverability -- do you know the difference? This simple differentiation in terms helps cut through complexity in getting an email from A to B 📨https://lightmeter.io/email-delivery-vs-email-deliverability/

#HelpSystems buys email security firm #Agari, a secure email gatway provider for #Office365 and #GSuite, to bolster its cyber-defence portfolio using "data sets, data science and cloud computing" https://www.zdnet.com/article/helpsystems-expands-email-cloud-security-portfolio-with-acquisition-of-agari-beyond-security/

To make it easy to try out Lightmeter without installing it we created this new demo generator: as many private instances as you need to try (or show off to others). 2 Clicks, 5 seconds, boom! 🎯 https://lightmeter.io/new-lightmeter-demo-generator-lets-you-try-it-out-in-seconds/ #Postfix #Mailops #Monitoring

We have been shortlisted for the Next Generation Internet Pitch competition! It's part of the #NGI Forum next week (free & online): https://2021.ngiforum.eu, run by the EU programme for top innovators who are shaping the 'Internet of Humans' @NGIZero@mastodon.xyzI

Release Candidate for Lightmeter 1.7 is ready for testing -- includes an updated database library and crash fixes, as well as a major new feature. Help catch issues before it's final! ⚙️ https://lightmeter.io/release-candidate-for-lightmeter-1-7/ #Postfix #SMTP #Deliverability

Use a web control panel for managing servers? 380k #Plesk admins are now supported by Lightmeter 1.6 - set it up in 3 minutes with this video guide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMMUfvBEiKM #Postfix #WHCP

Lightmeter 1.6 released: Web-based server control panels including #Plesk are now supported with point-and-click setup, and a welcome #walkthrough tour now onboards new users 🍎 Get it while it's hot https://lightmeter.io/lightmeter-1-6-plesk-support-and-walkthrough-guide/ #Postfix #Sentora# YunoHost #Dokku

A new Release Candidate for Lightmeter 1.6 is out ⚗️ Last chance to test with your systems before the final is shortly released https://lightmeter.io/release-candidate-1-6/

Important security fixes are included in Lightmeter 1.5.1, just released, identified during an audit by #RadicallyOpenSecurity. Check what's affected and cycle passwords if necessary 🔁 Found, fixed, and released same day ⏱️ https://lightmeter.io/lightmeter-1-5-1-important-security-fixes/ #NGIZero

Lightmeter 1.5 is out: now you can monitor remote #mailservers using either sockets or sync'ing! (#Logstash users: we've got you covered 😉). Also past delivery performance now gets analysed and Insights created, producing a handy digest of found issues 📜 https://lightmeter.io/lightmeter-1-5-historical-insights-and-logstash-support/

Perhaps the best list so far of private #GMail alternatives: 11 options from #ReclaimTheNet including #Kolab #Runbox and #Countermail https://reclaimthenet.org/private-email-providers/ #deGoogle