Honestly, it’s not as hard as people make it out to be. Apart from regular updates I only have to touch the configuration every few years to keep up with the newest useless anti-spam measures.
Running the server itself is fine (I have done and still do run a mail server), but getting the large email providers to not flag your message as spam can be quite tricky.
100% spot on. I did this for many years, and the sysadmin stuff was actually a fun little hobby. There were many seasons in terms of deliverability. I only ran personal email, never a list or anything like that, my ip wasn’t on any black list, but from time to time emails wouldn’t be delivered, or they would start going to peoples spam folders. I’d get fixed what I could using google/outlook/whatever’s tools or reach out to the mail admin address. Many times deliverability would be fixed, but months later the cycle would repeat. Or worse, I’d get silently and suddenly banished to spam. There’s nothing more you can do about that (yes I had all the things to prevent it).
Ended up moving my mx records to fastmail and using them for email. It’s not much, if any, more cost than running a vps for email (well, if you only consider one user), but I’ve had drastically improved deliverability.
Long story short, email is terribly broken, but it’s a good idea to have your own domain so that you own your address.
Honestly, it’s not as hard as people make it out to be. Apart from regular updates I only have to touch the configuration every few years to keep up with the newest useless anti-spam measures.
Microsoft. Also I still end up in spam. Too lazy to do warmup
I find the yunohost mailserver pretty good ootb
@NathanUp @bjoern_tantau Maddy mailserver rocks
Running the server itself is fine (I have done and still do run a mail server), but getting the large email providers to not flag your message as spam can be quite tricky.
100% spot on. I did this for many years, and the sysadmin stuff was actually a fun little hobby. There were many seasons in terms of deliverability. I only ran personal email, never a list or anything like that, my ip wasn’t on any black list, but from time to time emails wouldn’t be delivered, or they would start going to peoples spam folders. I’d get fixed what I could using google/outlook/whatever’s tools or reach out to the mail admin address. Many times deliverability would be fixed, but months later the cycle would repeat. Or worse, I’d get silently and suddenly banished to spam. There’s nothing more you can do about that (yes I had all the things to prevent it).
Ended up moving my mx records to fastmail and using them for email. It’s not much, if any, more cost than running a vps for email (well, if you only consider one user), but I’ve had drastically improved deliverability.
Long story short, email is terribly broken, but it’s a good idea to have your own domain so that you own your address.
Use a third party SMTP relay. There are plenty of free ones and it just works, no hassle.
Yeah I mean, if I don’t run a mail server then it’s pretty easy to run a mail server 🤣