Self-Host Weekly (10 April 2026) The document wars, e-mail hosting discourse, and the return of an old friend

Self-Host Weekly (2026-04-10)

#LibreOffice vs #Collabora, software #updates and launches, a spotlight on #Chibisafe, and more in this week's #selfhosted recap!

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#selfhost #selfhosting #opensource #foss #homelab #sysadmin #devops #bluesky #privacy #photos #immich #mxroute

MXroute 10GB promo:

$20 for 2 years!

www.reddit.com/r/mxroute/comments/1rfm7...

#mxroute #email

Create and manage email aliases with MXroute

Create and manage email aliases with MXroute:

https://emd.codeberg.page/mxroute-alias-manager.html

#MXroute #email

Cracking Down on Deceptive Account Abuse MXroute has seen a dramatic increase in new customers over a short period of time. Growth brings opportunity, but it also brings visibility. As a result, patterns that were once rare or isolated are now easier to detect at scale. One of those patterns is deceptive use against third party

Cracking down on deceptive account abuse:

blog.mxroute.com/cracking-down-on-decepti...

#mxroute #email

An update from Jarland, regarding the new LLM-based spam filter. The option will be subscription based, possibly $10/m per domain:

www.reddit.com/r/mxroute/comments/1qh0s...

#mxroute #email

AI Spam Filtering Beta Test:

www.reddit.com/r/mxroute/comments/1qean...

#mxroute #email

Help The MXroute Spammer Foundation

Help The MXroute Spammer
experience life's pleasures:

https://mxroutespammer.com

#mxroute #email #spam #humour #humor

Use secure passwords!

www.reddit.com/r/mxroute/comments/1q9ho...

#mxroute #email

MXroute 4.0 Announcement Hey friends, Today I am proud to announce MXroute 4.0. That's what we're calling a complete UX overhaul, which does also include some new features and a unified experience for all of the customers deployed on our DirectAdmin servers (sorry to legacy cPanel users, only half of it is

MXroute 4.0 announcement:

https://blog.mxroute.com/mxroute-4-0-announcement/

#mxroute #email

MXroute - Possible price increases for new orders by January:

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#mxroute #email

Why I Take Spam Personally (And how Shopify enables it) Most people think spam is an annoyance. An inconvenience. Something you swipe away, filter, or laugh about in screenshots. For me, spam stopped being abstract a long time ago. Years ago, someone deliberately weaponized newsletter systems against me. Not phishing. Not malware. Something far more insidious and far harder to

Why I take spam personally:

https://blog.mxroute.com/why-i-take-spam-personally/

#mxroute #email

The Next Chapter (New Control Panel) When I first launched MXroute, the goal was always simple: make email hosting boring. Not boring in a bad way, but boring in the sense that it should quietly do its job while you live your life, run your business, or obsess over something more interesting than SMTP logs. Over

Mxroute Blog - The Next Chapter (New Control Panel):

https://blog.mxroute.com/the-next-chapter/

#mxroute #email

MXroute Black Friday 2025

MXroute Black Friday 2025:

https://mxroute.blackfriday/

#mxroute #email #blackFriday

Massive success in anti-spam operations:

www.reddit.com/r/mxroute/comments/1p0r9...

#mxroute #email #spam

MXroute are advertising their '2025 Lifetime 15G' promotion package:

accounts.mxroute.com/index.php

It would cost $1 per year, plus a $248 setup fee. Basically, the $1 per year is a fee to ensure that the account is still wanted by a customer.

#MXroute #email

Cold Email Is Spam. Full Stop. There’s a lot of noise lately from self-proclaimed growth hackers, sales gurus, and startup founders preaching the gospel of “cold email.” They say it’s how you “scale outreach,” how you “get noticed,” how you “grow.” They wrap it up in euphemisms like “personalized contact” or “B2B lead generation,

Cold Email Is Spam. Full Stop.

blog.mxroute.com/cold-email-is-spam-full-...

#mxroute #email #spam

Moving Forward with Lifetime Plans, Smarter This Time Lifetime packages have always been a strange but meaningful part of MXroute. They’ve brought in customers who wanted to bet on us for the long haul, and in return we’ve honored those bets. The people who picked up our original lifetime plans years ago are still sitting comfortably

Moving forward with lifetime plans, smarter this time:

blog.mxroute.com/moving-forward-with-life...

#MXroute #email

Amazed at how easy, free, and reliable this networking infrastructure malarky is compared to 20 years ago. #cloudflare, #mxroute, #nextcloud are delightful.