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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 reques

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...

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...