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Assuming you meant VPS, the biggest pain is that these cheap VPS cycle through IP addresses so frequently you're almost guaranteed to get an address on your box
by 0x0000000 5y ago
Assuming you meant VPS, the biggest pain is that these cheap VPS cycle through IP addresses so frequently you're almost guaranteed to get an address on your box that is blacklisted, so all your outgoing mail is ending up in the recipients' spam box, if it gets there at all.
That said, I've been using https://mailinabox.email/ https://mailinabox.email/ on a $2/mo VPS for about a year, for specific low volume e-mail, and I haven't had too much trouble.
- elpocko 5y ago> Assuming you meant VPS Yes, of course. How embarrassing. I already have a VPS for many years and it didn't change IP addresses ever. I need a simple way to make it my email server when I have to get away from Google.
- 0x0000000 5y agoIn that case, I can say mail-in-a-box is easy, however it does work kind of like an appliance and expects that the server is only being used for mail-in-a-box. You could move whatever's on your VPS now to a new one, and then put mail-in-a-box on the old one that's had the consistent IP? Alternatively, you could set up inbound forwarding to a personal e-mail (most registrars include free e-mail forwarding IME -- if yours doesn't, transfer it over to Namecheap), and then use an SMTP service for outbound mail from your domain (you could use Mailgun, SMTP.com, and many others). All of your inbound mail will be free, and if you find that you need to respond with your domain, you'll be paying way less than $6/mo for your outgoing.