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Have around 100 users on my self-hosted mailserver. Works alright for the most part. Once or twice a year, there are connection issues to small companies with w
by m3nu 4y ago
Have around 100 users on my self-hosted mailserver. Works alright for the most part. Once or twice a year, there are connection issues to small companies with weird settings. I just route those over an external ESP.
Then there is also mxroute.com, which is an indie email provider. He seems to do fine too. Didn't use them yet.
So I think having at least some sending volume is key to running an indie server. You can't do it just for a few mailboxes/users.
I still wouldn't recommend to learn or start with email in 2022. There are better uses of your time.
- hammyhavoc 4y agoHe? Is it a one-man-band? If so, that's a scary single point of failure for something as critical as your email.
- m3nu 4y agoNah, he should have some staff. I just know the founder ("Jar") from forum posts.
- lysp 4y agoThe owner is from the lowendtalk.com hosting forums. It was a side project for a few years and has been full time for last couple of years now. He's very hands on. Has very strict rules about spam - both from sending and receiving perspective. When he brings in new ip ranges, he babysits them by slowly warming them up until they have a good enough reputation to be accepted by major providers.