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I've been looking at moving to self-hosted personal email. I'm curious did you have any deliverability issues with your setup? That's my biggest area of concern
by blacktriangle 5y ago
I've been looking at moving to self-hosted personal email. I'm curious did you have any deliverability issues with your setup? That's my biggest area of concern.
- dqv 5y agoYou shouldn't have any deliverability issues unless you're sending bulk mail. You may have to bother some mail admins if they have bad IP blocklist rules. Most mail providers are fast to respond if you're having delivery issues to them. Except for Zoho. Encourage people with Zoho to switch mail providers.
- Spivak 5y agoOr if you’re not the type to email randos on the internet it’s not that hard to piggyback off of ses, sendgrid, postmark, etc.. Might defeat the point of self-hosting for you but at that point at least you own your data.
- knadh 5y agoIt’s possible to achieve good deliverability with some effort. Proper SMTP config and a “clean” dedicated IP from a host with no history of spamming. I gave up on the Postfix/Dovecot setup when I switched hosts and figured I’d just rely on a dedicated provider. At the end of the day, with a local client, the email provider is merely a pluggable relay.