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Love the intro to self-hosting your email, but aren't you going to be flagged as spam by the main providers anyhow?
by tomgs 3y ago
Love the intro to self-hosting your email, but aren't you going to be flagged as spam by the main providers anyhow?
- Banditoz 3y agoYou can partially mitigate it by making sure DMARC, DKIM, and SPF are configured right. There are tools online you can use to verify they're setup right, don't remember which sites though.
- goku12 3y agoI have used mxtoolbox.com in the past. However, I don't know how reputed they are. Note that the 'big mail providers' won't accept your mails even after you apply every known trick in the book. This is especially true for the two biggest ones that provide free services and hosted services on customers domains.
- teddyh 3y agoJust off the top of my head, I would suggest using the “Test your email” tool at <https://internet.nl/ https://internet.nl/> for testing incoming e-mail, and <https://www.learndmarc.com/ https://www.learndmarc.com/> and <https://www.mail-tester.com/ https://www.mail-tester.com/> for testing sending e-mail.
- mjl- 3y agoI would also suggest https://www.email-security-scans.org/ https://www.email-security-scans.org/ for testing outgoing emails.
- teddyh 3y agoOthers for testing outgoing e-mail which I have saved, but don’t regularly use: • <https://www.checktls.com/TestReceiver https://www.checktls.com/TestReceiver> • <https://www.helloinbox.email/ https://www.helloinbox.email/> • <http://isnotspam.com/ http://isnotspam.com/>
- teddyh 3y agoIf, by “self-host” you mean “hosted by the cheapest VPS I could find, using an IP address range from the wrong side of the metaphorical rail road tracks”, then yes. If by “self-host” you mean “hosted by myself in a server rack in my house, possibly using a VPN to a respected IP connectivity provider”, then no.
- fiddlerwoaroof 3y agoI’ve had pretty good luck running my own on digital ocean for several years now.
- unclet 3y agoActually, I have tested sending mail to Gmail or other Mail Service Provider, and have not found any one flagged my email as spam.