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It's not easy but it's not that hard. I've bootstrapped many mail servers on AWS and others and, although the initial outgoing emails might be flagged as spam A
by gtirloni 5y ago
It's not easy but it's not that hard. I've bootstrapped many mail servers on AWS and others and, although the initial outgoing emails might be flagged as spam AND you may have to remove yourself from Spamhaus and others, it's been mostly painless.
- pfarrell 5y agoWhen I worked in email marketing in the 2000's, our director of engineering said something to me I've repeated many times. "Everything is hard at scale."
- nulbyte 5y ago> It's not easy but it's not that hard. Agreed. I think the hardest part is getting started; folks not familiar with hosting their own email just don't have as much awareness of what to do and how to do it. But take a bit of time to learn, get a reputable ISP, don't spam people, and you can do just fine without too much effort. I got a cheap VPS specifically to host email, and the worst I've had to do is fill out a Spamhaus form one time.
- Breza 5y agoI agree with you. It sounds basic, but from my experience the key is only sending emails that people actually want to receive and being ruthless about dropping accounts that appear to have become inactive.