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Irrelevant. The GP asked for a paid SMTP service. GP, FastMail is very good. edoceo, the reason your flippant comment is irrelevant and unhelpful is that runni
by jjkkknnn 5y ago
Irrelevant. The GP asked for a paid SMTP service. GP, FastMail is very good.
edoceo, the reason your flippant comment is irrelevant and unhelpful is that running an SMTP service means dealing with often intractable deliverability problems that are only surmountable by having your mail sent by a server that sends a large volume of legitimate email to build reputation as a sender.
It doesn't matter if you use postfix, exim, sendmail, BSD, Linux, or TempleOS, or manually wiggle magnets towards an open socket to send email, the reason the GP wants paid SMTP is so that he can rent access to a server with adequate deliverability to actually use his email.
- bityard 5y agoHmm, I've been running my own SMTP server on a VPS for over a decade with very few issues.
- edoceo 5y agoYea, same - and since it costs me $5/mo I view it as a paid solution. Do you have good deliverabikity to Google and MS hosted mailboxen?
- fiddlerwoaroof 5y agoOnce I implemented DKIK and SPF, I had very few issues with Gmail. The biggest issues I’ve had were with corporate self-hosted exchange servers (my job inquiries at a particular company went unanswered and, when I contacted via an alternate channel, I heard that my mail had ended up in a “clutter” box
- na85 5y agoI keep a Gmail for that exact reason.
- lmas 5y agoHuh that's all that's required to stay out of gmail's junk folders? DKIM and SPF? Could had sworn there were a lot more work/tech required, a couple of years ago.
- edoceo 5y agoI did the DMARC stuff too. It's working great. I'm low volume tho, and there is never UCE sent from my setup.
- lmas 5y agoYeah if you got the first two, I automatically assume DMARC is used too. But am not familiar with "UCE"? Also did you have to research your IP/domain that your VPS sits behind? Domain blacklists, and avoiding them, seems pretty straightforward. But I've heard mixed things about VPS ips, some mail services could block whole networks from VPS providers while others don't care as long as you don't spam?
- edoceo 5y agoUCE is the name for Spam in Postfix docs. Unsolicited Commercial Email.
- atatatat 5y ago"Nobody ever told me they didn't get my messages they didn't know about!"