So self-hosting is so easy and problem free, everyone is making up fiction about the problems, and yet in your very first "solution" you tell people to not self

So self-hosting is so easy and problem free, everyone is making up fiction about the problems, and yet in your very first "solution" you tell people to not self-host outbound email at all and to pay money to a third party to solve a lot of the hard parts for you? > 1) The primary issue brought up is deliverability. If you don't have a static IP, or you don't have control over your reverse DNS PTR, or the reputation of your IP is poor, then pay a company to smarthost your outgoing mail through them. It's a few $ a month, and poof! Problem solved. By that "logic" self-hosting is easy because I could have a third party handle outbound AND inbound mail, which is essentially standard mail hosting with a custom domain. Plus you cannot just turn-key create a high reputation, you start out with low and your emails will be dropped into spam.