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The act of hosting postfix/dovecot is not in itself difficult. Debugging deliverability issues is, though. And it's time-consuming.
by nvy 2y ago
The act of hosting postfix/dovecot is not in itself difficult. Debugging deliverability issues is, though. And it's time-consuming.
- justinclift 2y agoAnd doesn't change anything I said at all.
- nvy 2y agoIt kinda does, though. It's why I stopped self-hosting. I bet if you emailed my gmail address it wouldn't come through, even through no fault of your own. You can have DMARC, SPF and DKIM all correctly configured on a clean IP and some mail server at Microsoft will still drop your mails because it's having a hard day and it feels like it.
- justinclift 2y agoYou can also route outbound email through an existing place like smtp2go.com, which stops all of that outbound hassle. :) That place in particular (which I use and can recommend) even have a (permanent?) free tier. ;)
- intern4tional 2y agoThis makes it something that the average person cannot do; you're suggesting something that already requires more time and resources than 75% of the population has access to. If you're serious about this than go talk to a non-tech person and tell them to self-host email and see how they do. Look at their challenges, build a solution and then offer it.
- justinclift 2y agoPlease don't try changing the goal posts by introducing "non-tech" people into this. That's not at all what the conversation is about, and routing through an external place removes a whole bunch of hassle compared to setting up and maintaining outbound email. You might not like it for some reason, but that's on you.
- nvy 2y agoIf you need a third party to deliver your mail on your behalf, are you really self hosting? What's the point? At that stage you've already conceded the deliverability problem so now you're just wasting time administrating dovecot and keeping up with security patches.
- justinclift 2y ago> If you need a third party to deliver your mail on your behalf, are you really self hosting? Obviously yes. Not sure why you're trying to pretend otherwise. Good luck with that. ;)
- jstanley 2y agoThe greatest trick the centralised email services ever pulled is convincing people that a faulty spam filter is the sender's problem.