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> If you start running a new server, you start with a negative reputation and have to climb out, you don't start from neutral. Not really. If you start a new
by judge2020 3y ago
> If you start running a new server, you start with a negative reputation and have to climb out, you don't start from neutral.
Not really. If you start a new server from an IP range with known bad actors, sure. Many have tried and failed to run their own mail servers from Digitalocean, vultr, or even more dedicated-esque server hosts and pretty quickly see how much of a hassle doing so is.
But if you buy a v4 /24 from some reputable or old company and get it assigned to your own AS, you won't have negative reputation and will be fairly successful as long as you have spf/dkim/dmarc set up properly.
- dns_snek 3y ago> But if you buy a v4 /24 from some reputable or old company and get it assigned to your own AS Doesn't that have an extremely high barrier to entry? A legal entity, significant ongoing fees, and some infrastructure? I'm under the impression that this is entirely out of reach for anyone just trying to run an email server at home for personal use. I would love to be wrong!
- Avamander 3y agoBulk sending (including transactional) indeed is out of reach in that sense, but it's still not too difficult to pull off on a smaller scale.
- throwaway81523 3y ago> if you buy a v4 /24 from some reputable or old company and get it assigned to your own AS, you won't have negative reputation until you give yourself negative reputation by running abuse bots from that range.