To be honest it’s mostly FUD. Self host email is perfectly doable provided that:
- you don’t use your home IP
- you do DNS records correctly
- you do DKIM & DMARC correctly
- you don’t send spam
What happened to me over the years was having the subnet my ip was is being associated to spammers, and that was a problem. It took several iterations with blacklists and my provider to get it sorted. That’s why I recommend using a reputable service provider that take care of spammers in a timely manner.
lukecyca@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I’ve been running my own email server for 15+ years. One year ago I needed to change VPS providers and thus get a totally different IP. I worried about this a bit, but actually had no issues whatsoever. Of course, I wasn’t starting completely from scratch as I had the same domain, all my personal experience, and a battle-tested configuration for docker-mailserver. But yeah, the lack of IP reputation itself didn’t seem to be an issue at all. Maybe I got lucky. Or maybe it’s because I chose a relatively small Canadian VPS provider rather than one of the global cloud giants (I assume their IP address space gets pretty trashed with scammers).
moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
What about domain reputation?