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Do you find you have problems delivering to other mail servers? That has always been the trick. Running the mail server is easy. Having your email show up in o

Do you find you have problems delivering to other mail servers? That has always been the trick. Running the mail server is easy. Having your email show up in other servers is "hard". Right now, with so many users using GMAIL, using gmail is a huge boon to not being marked spam (Google is way less likely to market a @gmail.com email as spam compared to say a @aol.com email).

Clubber 9y ago
I haven't had any issues but I've been hosting my own mail server since 2000 or so. I've been blacklisted by spamhaus? before years ago but I submitted a request to remove and they did. Google has a page to help with this though. https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126?hl=en&vid=0-107053137999-1503344039952 https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126?hl=en&vid=0-107... Also, I personally host at home and have Comcast business internet. I have a 5 IP block of which one is a mail server. I have occasional internet outages and more frequent power outages, but it's been fine.
- CaptSpify 9y ago
  I'd like to add another voice to this: I host my own email myself out of my house, and I've never really had any problems with it either. AFAIK I've never been marked as spam, even after I've sent a couple of mis-configured emails that should have probably been marked as spam.
  - brianwawok 9y ago
    Have you ever done mailing list work? Like run a mailing list with a few tens of thousand users?
    - CaptSpify 9y ago
      Nope. I can't say that I have. That definitely might be something that can get you flagged.
    - Clubber 9y ago
      I host some people's notification emails, so it will send a few hundred a month. I highly recommend putting a single email recipient per email.
- throwaway613834 9y ago
  Your IP is leaked to everyone you email (and if you receive mail, to everyone who emails you), which is a privacy hole since it ties your IP directly to your identity. I assume you don't mind, or did you not realize this?
  - Clubber 9y ago
    The whois shows my company name. I mean since I run a company, I don't really want that private. Also, those IPs are accessible through a simple DNS lookup of the sender domain, so I'm not really losing any security.
    - throwaway613834 9y ago
      Oh, I thought you were recommending this for consumer usage. Yeah, if you have a company then there's probably nothing to keep private.
      - Clubber 9y ago
        The hosting provider will probably put whatever you want in the whois.
        throwaway613834 9y ago
        The whois wasn't my concern though (since I already knew it was solvable); my concern was the IP address leakage, which gives away your location among other things...
nasalgoat 9y ago
I run our own mail server at the office for our domain and I don't have any deliverability issues, but I made sure to have the full suite of DMARC, SPF, etc. all set up and kept current on the RBLs. Also it's very low volume, which I think is the key.

Clubber 9y ago

I haven't had any issues but I've been hosting my own mail server since 2000 or so. I've been blacklisted by spamhaus? before years ago but I submitted a request to remove and they did. Google has a page to help with this though. https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126?hl=en&vid=0-107053137999-1503344039952 https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126?hl=en&vid=0-107... Also, I personally host at home and have Comcast business internet. I have a 5 IP block of which one is a mail server. I have occasional internet outages and more frequent power outages, but it's been fine.

CaptSpify 9y ago
I'd like to add another voice to this: I host my own email myself out of my house, and I've never really had any problems with it either. AFAIK I've never been marked as spam, even after I've sent a couple of mis-configured emails that should have probably been marked as spam.
- brianwawok 9y ago
  Have you ever done mailing list work? Like run a mailing list with a few tens of thousand users?
  - CaptSpify 9y ago
    Nope. I can't say that I have. That definitely might be something that can get you flagged.
  - Clubber 9y ago
    I host some people's notification emails, so it will send a few hundred a month. I highly recommend putting a single email recipient per email.
throwaway613834 9y ago
Your IP is leaked to everyone you email (and if you receive mail, to everyone who emails you), which is a privacy hole since it ties your IP directly to your identity. I assume you don't mind, or did you not realize this?
- Clubber 9y ago
  The whois shows my company name. I mean since I run a company, I don't really want that private. Also, those IPs are accessible through a simple DNS lookup of the sender domain, so I'm not really losing any security.
  - throwaway613834 9y ago
    Oh, I thought you were recommending this for consumer usage. Yeah, if you have a company then there's probably nothing to keep private.
    - Clubber 9y ago
      The hosting provider will probably put whatever you want in the whois.
      - throwaway613834 9y ago
        The whois wasn't my concern though (since I already knew it was solvable); my concern was the IP address leakage, which gives away your location among other things...

nasalgoat 9y ago

I run our own mail server at the office for our domain and I don't have any deliverability issues, but I made sure to have the full suite of DMARC, SPF, etc. all set up and kept current on the RBLs. Also it's very low volume, which I think is the key.