"Mail is not hard: people keep repeating that because they read it, not because they tried it" Actually I repeat it because I ran mail servers for years, for p

"Mail is not hard: people keep repeating that because they read it, not because they tried it" Actually I repeat it because I ran mail servers for years, for personal use, for small businesses, for large businesses. It was hard because spam was difficult to deal with, I don't know if that's gotten easier. It was hard because managing mailboxes, spam boxes, whitelists, webmail, etc for users was non-trivial. It was hard because occasionally you would be blacklisted and it took days to un-blacklist you, either from a spam list, or from a "big provider" because for whatever reason they just didn't want to take your mail. It was hard because you couldn't just run an open relay on most ISPs, you usually had to use your ISP's relay, and thus suffer their own issues; if you used commercial IP space that was less of an issue. It was hard because it had to be secure, and follow standards. It was hard because as your own hosting provider, you had to do all the things providers do: have a stable connection, manage your DNS, do backups, manage configuration, upgrades, patches. We're not trying to bullshit you. We did it, and it was hard. Maybe it won't be for you, or maybe the "hardness" is just fun for you. But it's not a myth.