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Setting up the software is the easy part, making sure that you have good deliverability by keeping your IPs and domains off blacklists and not being filtered is
by jiggy2011 12y ago
Setting up the software is the easy part, making sure that you have good deliverability by keeping your IPs and domains off blacklists and not being filtered is the hard part.
- old-gregg 12y agoSee, that part can be outsourced: just configure your outbound SMTP to relay via deliverability companies like Mailgun or Mandril, for personal use the cost is $0. It's easy, see: http://documentation.mailgun.com/user_manual.html#smtp-relay http://documentation.mailgun.com/user_manual.html#smtp-relay The reason one might want to use his own email server is - I suspect because of Snowden story - security: you control your own email archive and possibly encryption. The delivery will have to happen over the open Internet anyway, so why not just relay to a 3rd party from the start. Disclaimer: I'm a cofounder of Mailgun.
- breakall 12y agoUsing an SMTP relay sounds like a great idea as it would cut down on the number of moving pieces the home sysadmin needs to worry about when running a mail server. Does Mailgun support TLS between my outbound SMTP and the Mailgun relay? And beyond?
- giovannibajo1 12y agoThat fixes half of the story; the other half is inbound spam filtering (with all the RBL, greylist, spamassassin dance). I then prefer an unique solution such as http://mailroute.net http://mailroute.net that handles both inbound and outbound. PS: mailgun is really great, i'm a happy user
- JacobJans 12y agoI'm not so sure. I send 1 million+ emails a month from my server, and have had no issues at all in terms of being on blacklists. Deliverability has been comparable or better than 3rd party providers. I don't spam, and I don't have very many people sending email from the IP address. Maybe that helps.