Comment on Have you tried self-hosting your own email recently?
brighteast@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’ve been self hosting email successfully for 20 years. My goto article for this question:
poolp.org/…/you-should-not-run-your-mail-server-b…
TLDR;
- Mail is not hard: people keep repeating that because they read it, not because they tried it
- Big Mailer Corps are quite happy with that myth, it keeps their userbase growing
- Big Mailer Corps control a large percentage of the e-mail address space which is good for none of us
- It’s ok that people have their e-mails hosted at Big Mailer Corps as long as there’s enough people outside too
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
The article’s answer to this one is handwavey “there are rules that spammers can’t meet, but you can do it just fine”. This is not the whole story by far. This is a more comprehensive overview of why it doesn’t work:
cfenollosa.com/…/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-…
On a dynamic IP connection, you can very easily have had the address flagged already. If the one you have now isn’t flagged, the one you get later might be. Debugging intermittent problems is not fun.
They also like it when your domain has shown good behavior already. I can do that because my domain has existed for over 20 years and I’ve hosted email on it in one form or another for that whole time. A person starting out on their own is not going to be able to do that.
This doesn’t necessarily mean that the big providers are the only option. There are smaller providers, like Fastmail.
paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Never read this article before, thanks for sharing!