It is kind of a hassle to get all your DNS set up so your mail doesn’t go to spam. If you don’t already know what you’re doing it will probably take over an hour.
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emon@masto.top 3 weeks ago
@crandall selfhosting an email server is far from being a hassle. Nowadays it is really easy. You can setup everything in less an hour.
I use stalwart + a postfix relay on a cheap vps.
i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Dultas@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Even if properly setup it could still go to spam until you get your reputation score up which with low volumes will take ages.
trilobite@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
So i was thinking about this from a dns perspetive. If you have a dns forwarder can you not configure it to ensure that emails from the local smtp server never leave tour lan?
i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
If you have local SMTP and IMAP you can send mail on your own systems, or if you’re not using containers and you run everything on the same system you may even be able to skip SMTP and just deliver directly. But if you want to receive mail from outside your LAN you’ll need a way to access your IMAP server.
axum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Ah yes. Fuck with dns, reverse dns/ptr records, dmarc, dkim, spf, verify server is not on a blacklisted ip in spamhaus, stand up a server, then implement anti spam filters, and hope anything you send doesn’t end up in someone else’s spam filters, as well as monthly checks to make sure no spam lists have sudddenly added your domain/ip to said lists.
But hey easy right?
Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Actually yes, if you take each piece one step at a time it’s not that bad, as long as you are not expecting a fully functioning mail server on day 1 it’s relatively easy.
Dultas@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, this is self hosting after all. If you don’t expect some challenges to work though then you’re not gonna not have a good time.
Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The crazy thing is I can do a mail server easily, but I always get stuck or annoyed with docker, everyone says docker is easy 🤷