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No, not really. It's a constant battle to get delisted from spam blacklists and your site keeps popping back up. Even most companies don't bother with it anymor

No, not really. It's a constant battle to get delisted from spam blacklists and your site keeps popping back up. Even most companies don't bother with it anymore.

lucb1e 10y ago
> Even most companies don't bother with it anymore. This is a little bit like "correlation is not causation". Companies are moving a lot of stuff to the 'cloud', and email is just one of the services that goes with it. It's simply cost-saving to not have dedicated IT personnel. Even if hosting your own mail server is easy, you need someone who takes care of it every now and then (disk full, adding users, blacklist incident once a year, etc.).
- cookiecaper 10y ago
  Your company is amazingly lucky if it only gets a blacklist incident once a year, and if that incident is easily resolved. The internet seems to have decided that if your mail doesn't come from one of the major commercial mail brokers, it's as good as spam. I ran several private mail servers for several years before giving up. I'm generally suspicious of moving to cloud/services, but outgoing email is the one thing that I can safely say 99% of companies would be better off moving to a service.
jcadam 10y ago
I've given up on it for transactional email for any of my small-time SaaS services. Coaxing gmail into accepting my emails was a constant fight. Just when I thought I was good, they'd start blocking me again for some new obscure reason. I remember fondly the days you could send an email to postmaster@domain.com and get a response from a real human being and at least attempt to have a rational conversation to resolve your mail delivery issues. I've tried that with google, yahoo, et al. and have never received a response. I just use mailgun/mandrill/etc. these days and forget about it. I also pay $10 a year to a provider for my personal email address.

No, not really. It's a constant battle to get delisted from spam blacklists and your site keeps popping back up. Even most companies don't bother with it anymore.

lucb1e 10y ago

> Even most companies don't bother with it anymore. This is a little bit like "correlation is not causation". Companies are moving a lot of stuff to the 'cloud', and email is just one of the services that goes with it. It's simply cost-saving to not have dedicated IT personnel. Even if hosting your own mail server is easy, you need someone who takes care of it every now and then (disk full, adding users, blacklist incident once a year, etc.).

cookiecaper 10y ago
Your company is amazingly lucky if it only gets a blacklist incident once a year, and if that incident is easily resolved. The internet seems to have decided that if your mail doesn't come from one of the major commercial mail brokers, it's as good as spam. I ran several private mail servers for several years before giving up. I'm generally suspicious of moving to cloud/services, but outgoing email is the one thing that I can safely say 99% of companies would be better off moving to a service.

jcadam 10y ago

I've given up on it for transactional email for any of my small-time SaaS services. Coaxing gmail into accepting my emails was a constant fight. Just when I thought I was good, they'd start blocking me again for some new obscure reason. I remember fondly the days you could send an email to postmaster@domain.com and get a response from a real human being and at least attempt to have a rational conversation to resolve your mail delivery issues. I've tried that with google, yahoo, et al. and have never received a response. I just use mailgun/mandrill/etc. these days and forget about it. I also pay $10 a year to a provider for my personal email address.