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I hosted our e-mail server a few years ago and it was a massive pain, because I could never be certain if e-mails were being delivered. 99% of the time it was
by avinium 8y ago
I hosted our e-mail server a few years ago and it was a massive pain, because I could never be certain if e-mails were being delivered.
99% of the time it was fine, but then we'd occasionally run into some odd spam vendor who had blacklisted our IP address (presumably from someone who had used it to spam a decade prior).
Maintaining our own spam filters was a bit of a pain.
For our business, I'm pretty happy shelling out $50 a month to have someone else (Google) take care of everything. I'm basically paying that for the security of knowing my e-mails are actually being delivered. Pretty sure most people feel the same.
- ndnxhs 8y agoI have been having the same issues. 99% of my emails go through but every now and then gmail marks one of mine as spam. I generally don't care as usually its other people emailing me because they want something and its their loss if they don't get the email. My server sends and receives properly. Not my problem if others have misconfigured email servers
- acct1771 8y agoYou're 100% sure that you're getting your complete email set from your provider? No misguided spam filter dead heading your emails here and there? Cmon.
- avinium 8y agoWell, I obviously have no control over what recipients do or do not mark as spam, so it's not an absolute guarantee. But of all the options available, self-hosted was the least reliable.