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There is no one secret you can google. There is also no need to perpetuate the fear of running your own email. Decentralization of core internet services helps
by jjav 7y ago
There is no one secret you can google.
There is also no need to perpetuate the fear of running your own email. Decentralization of core internet services helps us all, not just the person doing it. So to anyone seriously interested and willing to learn, I highly recommend running your own email servers.
If you expect 100% delivery rate, you won't necessarily get that, no matter who is running your email infrastructure. At multiple companies, I've seen email end up in spam even though it is sent from gmail-hosted company account to gmail-hosted company account. So that's the bar you want to meet or beat and beating it is not hard.
From ~7 years experience now, I don't observe any problems with email delivery. I don't do anything special. I use postfix, it is well configured and everything works fine. I host several personal domains and a couple small business domains.
And by doing so I avoid giving google the power to cut me off from email because some arbitrary ML gone bad.
- js4ever 7y agoI'm doing the same for exactly the same reason (afraid of bad ML from Google wiping my whole digital life)
- dasil003 7y agoI’ve seen emails marked as suspicious/phishing attempt between two GSuite domains owned by the same company.
- davchana 7y agoHeck I have seen emails from Google itself, not any gmail username, but information from @google addresses landed in my Spam emails, making me double check the headers that if it is spoofed or real.
- vzttzv2 7y agoI think that a good thing, since it mean they're committed to build a good algorithm, instead of just whitelist some big guy and throw everyone else to the trash.
- DJHenk 7y ago> And by doing so I avoid giving google the power to cut me off from email because some arbitrary ML gone bad. Technically maybe. But if most of the people you want to mail are on Gmail, as is the case for many, a cut off from Google is almost as bad.
- mariorossi666 7y agoBut then you can easily spot the issue and solve it (or at least try) or blame Google. If you lose access to your emails and Google doesn't even have to explain why IMHO it is really bad.