Stalwart v1.0: The Fastest Mail Server on the Planet
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Five years after the first line of code, Stalwart v1.0 is here: the first stable release, with a finalised database schema, months of profiling and stress testing, a rewritten search engine, and benchmark results that put it ahead of Postfix and Dovecot in 35 of 38 tests.
  • boosted@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I deployed Stalwart a few weeks ago just to give it a go. The good: Honestly nothing. It’s email. Nothing differentiates it beyond marketing hype. The bad: Having self-hosted email for many years the UX really sucks. It’s like they tried to hand-hold self-hosting noobs but even I had difficulty figuring out their approach in several areas. The ugly: Several features are paywalled via inaccessible buttons of alarming colors (red outline iirc) throughout the UI. No thanks.

    If you’ve never hosted email, you don’t need ThE FaStEsT mAiL sErVeR oN ThE pLaNeT, nor do you need sexy. You need security, reliability, and ideally, years of battle-testing that Stalwart just doesn’t have. Look for stacks including Postfix and Dovecot (docker-mailserver, mailu, mailcow come to mind).

    • Andres@social.ridetrans.it
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      4 days ago

      @boosted @tofu Thank you. I tried it out a while back and didn’t like it for similar reasons, but had forgotten why. With the 1.0 release I was tempted to try it again, but I also found the UX annoying and the paywall buttons (which I believe users can see, not just administrators!) really pissed me off.

    • ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      7 days ago

      What I appreciate about this is the acknowledgement of something called “nuance” that AI can now write viable code and be a tool that improves software, reduces bugs and security issues, and increases the speed with which it is written and fixed. Just because there’s an AGENTS.md doesn’t make code slop. And the more we refine this method, the cheaper it gets in terms of tokens/energy.

      I’m not happy about what it means for juniors coming into the field, but we might have to change what we teach in order to build good software, as has been done dozens of times before.

      We’ll still have the kneejerk reactionaries that are locking in the KV pair of AI=Slop but i guess that’s a constant of the human condition. Conservatives never change their minds.

    • DonutsRMeh@lemmy.worldBannedEnglish
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      8 days ago

      Holy fucking shit. I read the whole thing and I even enjoyed reading it. This has to be the most sane shit I’ve read all month. This is THE definition of “how to use a tool”. I freaking love it.