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how about going full nerd and taking things into your own hands ? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16392096 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16392096

• setquk 9y ago
  Thanks for the suggestion. It is a valid one so not sure why you got downvoted. I actually did this for a number of years in the late 1990s to about 2004 and currently am "fix it monkey" for our SES / DKIM / SPF / SMTP config and I don't really want to take that job home with me :)
  • tortasaur 9y ago
    Do you really need to fix that stuff often? I run my own mailserver, and it seemed very "set it and forget it", but maybe it's more complex at large orgs.
    • setquk 9y ago
      It's mainly swatting black hole lists and weird delivery errors. It's probably ok for simple use cases or personal use however. Unfortunately I have some unavoidable contacts on Yahoo Mail and Yahoo like to just defer your emails for 6 months with little chance of appeal.
    • Spooky23 9y ago
      If you are in a “good neighborhood” from a network point of view and don’t bulk send, it is not that bad. Cheap hosts are a bad idea. I hosted mail on a local colo’s site and had zero issues. When I ran a large enterprise system, we had issues all of the time but even then resolution wasn’t terrible.