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Spam probably isn't as bad as you think it is. It's not the dark old days where 99% of emails are spam. You should self-host, so you can do the experiment for
by inigyou 3mo ago
Spam probably isn't as bad as you think it is. It's not the dark old days where 99% of emails are spam.
You should self-host, so you can do the experiment for yourself. You might be surprised. You can always stop self-hosting if you don't like it.
- petcat 3mo agoRecent estimates show it's down closer to 50% of all emails now. Which is obviously still outrageous.
- Gualdrapo 3mo agoI wish that was true for all cases. My uni email is 99.9% spam and everything comes from official accounts sending irrelevant stuff to everyone and their grandma
- sharperguy 3mo agoI tried to self host my email but I immediately ran into the issue that basically every ISP and VPS host available to me block outgoing connections on the SMTP ports. This is a fairly new development in the last few years and is done mainly so that users can't cause their providers to end up on a blacklist. For some time it was possible to just send a special request to the provider asking them to unblock the port, but this is becoming less common, for often they simply deny the request. Users who have been hosting their own email for many years have often been grandfathered in so they might not even be aware of this.
- inigyou 2mo agoAsk around on LowEndTalk for a provider that doesn't block SMTP then. Also most of them will still allow inbound connections so you can at least self host receive-only services like website signups.