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Yes, since ~2008. Yes, sometimes mails go straight to google's 'spam' folder or I get cryptic bounces from MS. Once you have your SPF, DKIM and DNS RTR records
by betaby 4y ago
Yes, since ~2008. Yes, sometimes mails go straight to google's 'spam' folder or I get cryptic bounces from MS. Once you have your SPF, DKIM and DNS RTR records it's mostly a smooth sailing. Yes, I'm totally fine with investing 2-4 hours per year troubleshooting delivery issues. I don't by argument "I'm paid $50/hour so I won't", I, in contrast, paid yearly+bonus and outside of 40 hours/week my time is 'free' and I'm OK to spend it on activities like maintaining my servers or preparing my own food or cleaning my own house.
- beagle3 4y agoThe problem with delivery issues is you often don't know you have them ; I was paying for mail hosting to a small-ish hosting provider, and after 16 years of essentially perfect service, I started realizing that gmail delivers ~25% of the mail I sent through them as spam - but not consistently. I spent hours trying to diagnose this, and so did the hosting service - to no avail, because we'd try something, a delivery worked ... and the next day, to a different recipient, it didn't - and it is sometimes hard to get feedback about those things. I really wanted to support the smallish hosting service - but I couldn't afford to lose so many deliveries. I sadly switched to FastMail and not a single mail that I know of was lost for a few years now. You say you are investing 2-4/year troubleshooting delivery issues; How do you know that the things you don't troubleshoot actually reach the receipient's inbox?
- quickthrower2 4y agoI agree. Why do people even think to treat hours as fungible? “Time is money” is a criticism of over capitalist thinking, not a playbook!