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I've been running my own mail servers for ~15 years and yes you can run your own, but the biggest issue I've run into is other servers blocking me as spam: htt
by djsumdog 6y ago
I've been running my own mail servers for ~15 years and yes you can run your own, but the biggest issue I've run into is other servers blocking me as spam:
https://battlepenguin.com/tech/how-google-and-microsoft-made-email-unreliable/ https://battlepenguin.com/tech/how-google-and-microsoft-made...
I still prefer to host my own though.
- superhawk610 6y agoI've tried to self-host email for my domain a couple times over the past few years, and I always end up falling back to a paid host for this reason; I rarely use email these days, but when I do (or usually when I'm expecting an email from a recruiter or other business-related sender) I need some sense of confidence that it will go through correctly. The lack of ability to confidently send via self-hosted setup definitely feels intentional, which sucks. Great article btw!
- krageon 6y agoA lot of this is due to newness and perhaps bad IP reputation. You can fix the reputation by requesting your removal from blocklists. The newness should be fixed after a few years - have you run it on the same IPs for those 15 years? In my experience after a year or so the problems go away (admittedly this is on a much larger scale than personal email).