Comment on My two cent about emails servers field. Over a two decades...
bladewdr@infosec.pub 5 weeks ago
The issues with IP reputation, and mail providers like Microsoft and Google choosing to make massive, sweeping email blackholes with no recourse are the real problem.
Hosting your own email is not really all that hard.
It does require some understanding of how SMTP works, and how to avoid things like backscatter - but its all very tractable.
I run my own mailserver on Linode. Granted it is a single user instance, and I don’t send that much email, but I have had very few issues.
The few times I have had an issue is usually places just flat out not accepting email addresses with custom domains. (Looking at you, AutoZone… Looking at you.)
catloaf@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Yeah. Hosting your email is easy! Resolving being labeled as spam is not. (Filtering incoming spam is also hit or miss, but more just an annoyance than a problem.)
30p87@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
The only time I’ve been marked as spam (apart from being on a blocklist by default due to a residential IP, which can be resolved in minutes and a simple form) was as I sent a mail to my work account
Which was to be expected with no text content and only an attachment at a rather larger and sensitive company.