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I did the same for many years. Until I noticed that some people just never got my emails. Mostly people with business emails - I'd send something job related, a

by nvarsj 8y ago

I did the same for many years. Until I noticed that some people just never got my emails. Mostly people with business emails - I'd send something job related, and never hear back, just assuming they weren't interested. It took me a while to figure out that some email providers (outlook.com is one example) will just outright block small email hosts, despite following all the best practices like DKIM, DMARC, SPF. It's a lost cause trying to host your own email. I've been on fastmail for the last year or so with my custom domain, and it all seems to work great.

Avamander 8y ago
> will just outright block small email hosts And that's exactly why self-hosting needs to be more dominant instead of just relinquishing power to large corporations.
howard941 8y ago
It's ironic that outlook.com blocked you when it itself is too costly to block in that you can't tell whether the message is important from a contact at say a Fortune 500 or another Nigerian scam. Like you I ran my own stuff but possibly unlike I didn't encounter issues with recipients other than yahoo. I ran it from home from 2001 until last month and paid extra for a /29 static block from the phone company.