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The problem is your outbound mail server does not have a good reputation. You also probably do not have a large enough swath of IP space to prevent bad neighbo
by grepfru_it 4y ago
The problem is your outbound mail server does not have a good reputation. You also probably do not have a large enough swath of IP space to prevent bad neighbors from becoming your problem. Lots of tricks to getting your email sent reliably to most mail servers. What got me out of hosting mail was trying to send an email to a potential lead I met at a local meetup. His email was hosted at some very small and relatively unknown university, but my email was flat out rejected. Something about that moment just clicked that it's not worth my time to chase down the admins and resolve the problem. I'll just start shunting my email through O365. I still selfhost everything else I can, but I offload mail management to a provider
- aidenn0 4y agoI'm guessing dreamhost has a decent chunk of IP space...
- cameldrv 4y agoIt's more than that. I'm on a mailing list for a social organization that I've belonged to for 20 years, and has been hosted at the same place for all of that time. I have marked hundreds of the messages not spam, and still Google sends about 80% of them to spam. Google does not care even if you have regular correspondence with an address -- if the server isn't big enough, it's going to spam. The user's wishes or ideas about what is or isn't spam are irrelevant.
- julianlam 4y agoI'm surprised that you didn't just whitelist the email after the repeated ham events...!