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Building your own email server
- kayman 12y agoI considered doing this myself, but I read the biggest challenge is making sure your emails are not considered spam. Your private ip might be part of a larger network where your fellow "VPS" users might be considered spam. How do you ensure your emails won't go into the spam box because you host your own box? As opposed to gmail or mailgun building the relationships to ensure mail from them is not categorized into spam.
- toast0 12y agoIf you're going to do this, you need to make sure you're putting yourself in the right neighborhood. If you don't have a direct allocation of IPs, you want to get IPs from an organization that does a good job of responding to spam requests, and has a high barrier for entry, so that you're not associated with spammers. You also want to make sure that the only way for you to lose your IP is through some action on your part; you're going to be establishing its reputation, and you don't want to lose it because of an extended outage or something. I've had good luck with using a static IP from my residential ISP (Sonic.net): they respond quickly to spam reports, and you need to live in the area to have residential service, so spammers are unlikely to use it. Also, I've had no problems using dedicated hosting as well (SoftLayer), they also have a good spam response team, it's easier to get an account, but the servers aren't cheap, so spammers will go to cheaper pastures.
- A_COMPUTER 12y agoI have "cleaned" the reputation of an AWS IP address that I've got a mail server behind. It wasn't bad, but it should be a step in any guide on on setting up a server. There are lists of blocklists you can check to see if you're blocked, and manually request your IP be removed (only takes a few minutes.) I had to open a ticket with Yahoo to get unblocked, but that was it.