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0 pointsJoof9y ago0 comments

If you have a good alternative email I'd be down for that at least. Hosting your own turns out to be surprisingly difficult.

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mnw21cam9y ago· 2 in thread

Make that surprisingly easy. Been doing it for more than a decade now, just on my house ADSL connection. It helps that a friend has agreed to host a backup MX.

JoofOP9y ago

Really? My email tended to be blacklisted and treated as spam and I had poor filters and search. Help me out here lol.

mnw21cam9y ago

If you send email directly from your machine by looking up MX records from a home ADSL line, then yes this will happen. Instead, you should send your mail via your ISP's outgoing SMTP server, using the mail submission port number 587. Your ISP should provide this service, and you will probably have to authenticate using your username/password associated with your internet connection.

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