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You can deliver email to gmail and outlook until you ... can't. Whether the IP block your mail server is on gets blacklisted, some heuristic shifts against you
by spijdar 4y ago
You can deliver email to gmail and outlook until you ... can't. Whether the IP block your mail server is on gets blacklisted, some heuristic shifts against you (domain name becomes "bad" and shifts a point score over a threshold for being spam), or some other external factor happens, your perfectly configured mail server will suddenly and possibly with no warning or sign that it's failed, fail.
For even personal mail this is pretty annoying, but if you're relying on mail for business reasons, this is completely unacceptable. You need to be able to assume that mail you send reaches your clients/customers. The chance of your private mail server getting banned might be low, but it's not low enough, and over time that chance only increases (especially if you're hosting from a server on big shared IP blocks with naughty tenets like on most major cloud providers).