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Running your own server is great until something goes wrong and nothing works. It is just too much hassle to run your own mail server these days IMHO. Being bla
by bithush 12y ago
Running your own server is great until something goes wrong and nothing works. It is just too much hassle to run your own mail server these days IMHO. Being blacklisted for spam is a nightmare to sort out and can happen so easily when you stick you server on something like DO. The control and privacy is nice but is there really much difference between running your own server on DO and using Outlook.com or Gmail in terms of privacy?
- danieltillett 12y agoActually getting any mail system to work is a nightmare. Certain large legacy providers (I am looking at you Microsoft) have a habit of classifying totally legit mail as spam. I find around 2% of any mail message going into a hotmail account will be falsely classified as junk.
- shocks 12y agoThere's always that feeling in the back of your head... "Why haven't I got a reply yet? Are they busy? ... Or maybe I've misconfigured something... Maybe it got marked as spam... Maybe my SMTP server is fucked..." I always found myself using my gmail account for critical stuff...