i kinda have to disagree. i decided to take the plunge and i used a cheap racknerd vps and used Mailinabox. 5 minutes setup and occasional updates. i got set a

i kinda have to disagree. i decided to take the plunge and i used a cheap racknerd vps and used Mailinabox. 5 minutes setup and occasional updates. i got set as spam by google for the first few months but nothing since then. sure, one day i managed to spam like 200 emails in quick succession and that put me into spam but a quick "please select as unspam" solved it. i've been running this for like a year and it has been a good experience. i recommend people try this out, it doesn't cost a tonne