Question thread #77

[pauamma]

It's time for another question thread!

The rules:

- You may ask any dev-related question you have in a comment. (It doesn't even need to be about Dreamwidth, although if it involves a language/library/framework/database Dreamwidth doesn't use, you will probably get answers pointing that out and suggesting a better place to ask.)
- You may also answer any question, using the guidelines given in To Answer, Or Not To Answer and in this comment thread.

Comments

[denise]

Ughhhhh I didn't even think about email until pauamma brought it up, but yeah, running a mail server (which you need to do in order to have the site send you email) is a fucking pain in the fucking ass. I've been running my own for 20 years now because I vehemently distrust anyone else with my email, and I have come so close to saying fuck it and switching to a commercial provider so many times I've lost track. If you and your friend use gmail, forget ever being able to reliably recieve email from your install, ever. Gmail makes up its own mysterious standards and enforces them arbitrarily without any documentation and without any recourse when they just decide to stop accepting mail from you because you've violated some requirement they've entirely made up without any warning. I hate them to bits.

I, uh, may have some very strong opinions here.

[devilbear]

Your strong opinions have likely saved us a ton of headache, though!

We both exclusively use gmail and would definitely be attempting to use the mail server, since we'd want notifications and the like. Everything else, I think I'd be willing to try and tinker with, but that sounds like a nightmare I would never want to dig into for something like roleplay - which already takes up free time and doesn't generate any income to make up for it. I can't even begin to imagine the utter hell you've fought with to get any kind of important, time-sensitive help from the big G. One of my friends bought a gift card directly from them once and it took a month of being led in circles by auto-replies and people who just quoted FAQs before she could finally get it escalated to have someone look into why the site kept telling her the code was invalid.

[pauamma]

In case you were wondering, GMail is still at it.

[denise]

0% surprised. I did finally give up and migrate my domains' email handing to somebody else, because dealing with gmail just broke me.

[pauamma]

*nod*