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Well, some people do it, but in almost every case I don't think its worth the bother. I set up a mail server sometime back just for the experience - and it was
by veddox 8y ago
Well, some people do it, but in almost every case I don't think its worth the bother. I set up a mail server sometime back just for the experience - and it was a good experience, but I couldn't send emails to GMail or any MS host (Outlook.com etc.) Apparently the IP of my virtual server was already on some black list. And after taking a look at the necessary procedure to get it removed, I decided I'd stick to using someone else's mail server.
It's a burning shame, because email is one of the key technologies of the Internet, and the one that ought to be the most decentralized. (At least, in my idealist mind.) But there we go, I guess reality isn't as idealistic as I am...
- tatoalo 8y agoThat is a good point indeed, with all the effort that goes into keeping your cloud server IP out of some blacklist to this day I still get extremely clear phishing mail and spam directly in my inbox on outlook.com and the majority of the time it sits there indefinitely until I manually trash it, other times the spam filter will work it out (but after several hours).