@scottalanmiller said in Configure Mastodon to Use Zoho ZeptoMail for SMTP Email:

@PhlipElder said in Configure Mastodon to Use Zoho ZeptoMail for SMTP Email:

All of our mail servers are properly set up with a SmartHost, SPF, and DMARC. We don't have any reputation issues. That's a 2000s kind of problem.

No, it's current. Microsoft blacklists entire datacenters still. There's a lawsuit in Illinois about it that they lost. It's a very real thing still that RBL are used by the majors (like Microsoft, but not Google) and used to shut down entire ISPs and IP blocks. I've been brought in to help providers with these issues, it's a huge legal problem and if you don't get hit with it, it seems like it doesn't exist, and if you do get hit, it seems like there's no recourse (hint: there isn't.)

We're dealing with a client who has their site hosted in a Yandex.RU data centre and guess what? Yeah, some putz between their web server and ProofPoint has a sinkhole because Ukraine. The web server can e-mail @Outlook.Com because they have servers around the world but not ProofPoint.

We've had lots of issues over the years where one midbone/backbone provider either shapes or blocks packets from another because they're in a contract dispute. Poof. Packets gone.

@scottalanmiller said in Installing Mastodon 4.1.2 on Debian 11:

@stacksofplates said in Installing Mastodon 4.1.2 on Debian 11:

Their official image is here ghcr.io/mastodon/mastodon

Yeah, that one was flaky. But is it official? Why's it on a different account?

Yes it's their official. Ghcr is the GitHub packages repo. It's similar to GCR, ECR, etc. Other OCI image repositories are more popular now since Docker has imposed limits on Docker Hub.

@stacksofplates said in Mastodon:

@scottalanmiller said in Mastodon:

@stacksofplates said in Mastodon:

Databases scale vertically. That means, it’s a lot easier and more cost efficient to buy a super beefy machine for your database, than it is to spread the database over multiple machines with sharding or replication.

Why Postgres? That seems like the least logical choice for this.

Not the least, it's better than something expensive or even MariaDB. It has great performance. If you never needed to scale, it might easily be best. But, as he's already found, he needs to scale.

Ya I guess I didn't mean least. It's obviously better than Oracle or Firebird. I just meant out of the plethora of options ( I was thinking Elasticsearch or Solr) this seemed like it wouldn't be considered.

Yeah... CouchDB, MongoDB, all kinds of things that seem like they'd be better for this.