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Running a mail server is simple, even for programmers. Running a mail server with reliable outbound delivery, and inbound spam filtering, is anything but simpl
by tshtf 10y ago
Running a mail server is simple, even for programmers.
Running a mail server with reliable outbound delivery, and inbound spam filtering, is anything but simple.
- pmlnr 10y agoA reliable mail stack is configuring postfix+dovecot or cyrus, adding dspam, opendmarc, opendkim and a bunch of dns records. How is this any harder than anything else in computing?
- tshtf 10y agoDKIM + SPF + DMARC does not guarantee reliable delivery. Not even close.
- pmlnr 10y agoOf course not. However, in the past ~7 years, while running my own mail stack, I never had a delivery issue, though obviously this is small traffic. At work, we handle pretty large traffic for mail, with self-hosted mail servers as well - those are exim. No delivery issues either, although these are only the real, important, not even remotely spam-like, core business messages. Spam-like newsletters are done via sendgrid there.