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Fully appreciating that the people who see this are unlikely to be representative of the general population, I ask this nevertheless:
Do you, currently, run your own email server, without significant problems with email deliverability?
(I am asking because, so often, one hears that it is not possible, so I wonder how many other people here are successfully doing the impossible :))
@neil I ran my own #email server for about 25 years, from about 1994 to 2019. In the early days it ran on #UUCP even.
I stopped because:
1) Email had become too critical, and if I was away and offline or something and the server went down or had issues, I didn't want to lose mail
2) It took too much time to maintain, in BOTH directions.
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@neil You can't host it on a residential IP, even if static, because people RBL those. Also I was blocked multiple times because somebody else on my /24 at the hosting provider was spamming.
Then on the incoming side, it was a constant battle against spam.
Finally it took too much time and effort, and in a moment of going "how could I simplify my life?" I found an email hosting provider. I most recently evaluated providers a few months ago at https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10711-review-of-reputable-functional-and-secure-email-service
@jgoerzen @neil great write-up, john.
like you i ran my own system for a similar time span and while it was good experience it ended up becoming a burden.
id not heard of migadu before. i was on mailfence for some time but ran into a lot of legitimate email being caught in sieves.
mxroute was a good service however its ran by a single operator. bus factor is a variable for me. the concerns you have i also share
