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I don't understand what many have problems with running their own mail server? I run mine now for over 20 years. Started off with sendmail at the time. Then th

I don't understand what many have problems with running their own mail server? I run mine now for over 20 years. Started off with sendmail at the time. Then there was decision between postfix and qmail. I was going with postfix and I am with it since then. Today managed from/by LDAP so make it easy to at domians and users. Thats over 150 domains, while most of them just forwarding to few mail boxes. For a long time I resisted to use any external ressources to decide what is spam or not. But lately I adopted the use of some RBLs. Now I managed to be down to 0 external spam, except when Spam is sent from/via GMail. None of my sent email is detected as spam. I never had problems with bounced mail at all.

throwaway2016a 5y ago
It boils down to two main reasons, I think: 1. It's easy to configure yourself as an accidentally open mail relay. Which is a fast lain to having your IP blocked everywhere. 2. You may have no issues with deliverability but it's very common. Especially if you use an IP that hasn't been in your custody for long so you have no idea what it was used for before. Sounds like you got/have a good IP.
- LoveGracePeace 5y ago
  In 23 years, I've moved from GoDaddy to Linode to AWS Lightsail. It's not difficult to do this, it's not rocket science, I'm surprised by the amount of FUD being injected into the OP's discussion here on HN overall. It's almost like half who say boogey boogey there be demons in there made mistakes and quit prior to gaining profeciency while the other half probably have some incentive to herd people away from selfhosting and to the SaaS light where everything is right as rain.
- megous 5y ago
  1. In postfix some gotchas were fixed 9 years ago with version 2.10. It's not as easy anymore.
  - throwaway2016a 5y ago
    TBH it's probably been 9+ years since the last time I tried. Maybe half the objection is just older folks like me living in the past ;) Glad to hear that's not as easy.

throwaway2016a 5y ago

It boils down to two main reasons, I think: 1. It's easy to configure yourself as an accidentally open mail relay. Which is a fast lain to having your IP blocked everywhere. 2. You may have no issues with deliverability but it's very common. Especially if you use an IP that hasn't been in your custody for long so you have no idea what it was used for before. Sounds like you got/have a good IP.

LoveGracePeace 5y ago
In 23 years, I've moved from GoDaddy to Linode to AWS Lightsail. It's not difficult to do this, it's not rocket science, I'm surprised by the amount of FUD being injected into the OP's discussion here on HN overall. It's almost like half who say boogey boogey there be demons in there made mistakes and quit prior to gaining profeciency while the other half probably have some incentive to herd people away from selfhosting and to the SaaS light where everything is right as rain.
megous 5y ago
1. In postfix some gotchas were fixed 9 years ago with version 2.10. It's not as easy anymore.
- throwaway2016a 5y ago
  TBH it's probably been 9+ years since the last time I tried. Maybe half the objection is just older folks like me living in the past ;) Glad to hear that's not as easy.