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And this is one of the (many) reasons that I have self-hosted my email for the last 20 years. Sure, I have had outages, and one or two times I have had to drop
by ulrikrasmussen 1y ago
And this is one of the (many) reasons that I have self-hosted my email for the last 20 years. Sure, I have had outages, and one or two times I have had to drop everything to fix the server due to a botched upgrade. But each time this happened it was my own fault and I myself was able to fix it. I have NEVER lost access due to some automated system putting me in the wrong category.
By the way, the biggest griefs I have had with self-hosting my email has been due to Microsoft. Their way of categorizing spam can pretty much be summed up to: does it come from an explicitly whitelisted commercial email provider? Probably not spam, otherwise: spam. They are criminally incompetent (also) in this area.
- iforgotpassword 1y agoYep, on the rare occasion I deal with someone who uses Microsoft for email, I give them a heads-up that they probably miss an email every now and then. I remember my last employer's mails often didn't reach them, and at some point they added a big warning to their sign up page when you used one of the Microsoft domains for your email.
- vachina 1y agoOr don’t use Outlook (at least the retail version) for anything too important.
- pityJuke 1y agoOwning your own domain is good enough for me - I use Apple to host my mail, but should they suspend me I’d at least be able to move the domain to another provider. I should consider a solution for backing up my email, though.
- SSLy 1y agoimapsync