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>It was a circle of configuration hell I would wish on no one >actually sending emails and not being labeled as SPAM is almost impossible Anecdotal, but I rea
by parliament32 7y ago
>It was a circle of configuration hell I would wish on no one
>actually sending emails and not being labeled as SPAM is almost impossible
Anecdotal, but I really didn't have any issues with either of the above. Just don't use a tainted IP (protip: basically every cheap VPS provider's IP space is tainted) and set up SPF/DKIM properly. Following a tutorial is probably the way to go if you're not familiar with Postfix/Dovecot. And as you mentioned, once you have it up and running it's basically zero maintenance.
>making sure your service is literally ALWAYS available, is really quite tricky. It's pretty damn easy to miss some emails.
Mail standards actually make it really hard to miss emails. Every mail service will, by default, retry delivering mail for 4 days (!). This is the default in MTAs and the big boys (Gmail, etc) do the same. If you want to be more HA you can set up backup MXes but that's overkill for a personal server.