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0 pointsbrianwawok8y ago0 comments

Do you find you have problems delivering to other mail servers?

That has always been the trick. Running the mail server is easy. Having your email show up in other servers is "hard". Right now, with so many users using GMAIL, using gmail is a huge boon to not being marked spam (Google is way less likely to market a @gmail.com email as spam compared to say a @aol.com email).

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Clubber8y ago· 7 in thread

I haven't had any issues but I've been hosting my own mail server since 2000 or so. I've been blacklisted by spamhaus? before years ago but I submitted a request to remove and they did. Google has a page to help with this though.

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126?hl=en&vid=0-107...

Also, I personally host at home and have Comcast business internet. I have a 5 IP block of which one is a mail server. I have occasional internet outages and more frequent power outages, but it's been fine.

CaptSpify8y ago

I'd like to add another voice to this: I host my own email myself out of my house, and I've never really had any problems with it either. AFAIK I've never been marked as spam, even after I've sent a couple of mis-configured emails that should have probably been marked as spam.

brianwawokOP8y ago

Have you ever done mailing list work? Like run a mailing list with a few tens of thousand users?

Clubber8y ago

I host some people's notification emails, so it will send a few hundred a month. I highly recommend putting a single email recipient per email.

CaptSpify8y ago

Nope. I can't say that I have. That definitely might be something that can get you flagged.

throwaway6138348y ago

Your IP is leaked to everyone you email (and if you receive mail, to everyone who emails you), which is a privacy hole since it ties your IP directly to your identity. I assume you don't mind, or did you not realize this?

Clubber8y ago

The whois shows my company name. I mean since I run a company, I don't really want that private. Also, those IPs are accessible through a simple DNS lookup of the sender domain, so I'm not really losing any security.

throwaway6138348y ago

Oh, I thought you were recommending this for consumer usage. Yeah, if you have a company then there's probably nothing to keep private.

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nasalgoat8y ago

I run our own mail server at the office for our domain and I don't have any deliverability issues, but I made sure to have the full suite of DMARC, SPF, etc. all set up and kept current on the RBLs. Also it's very low volume, which I think is the key.

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Clubber8y ago· 7 in thread

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126?hl=en&vid=0-107...

CaptSpify8y ago

brianwawokOP8y ago

Have you ever done mailing list work? Like run a mailing list with a few tens of thousand users?

Clubber8y ago

I host some people's notification emails, so it will send a few hundred a month. I highly recommend putting a single email recipient per email.

CaptSpify8y ago

Nope. I can't say that I have. That definitely might be something that can get you flagged.

throwaway6138348y ago

Clubber8y ago

throwaway6138348y ago

Oh, I thought you were recommending this for consumer usage. Yeah, if you have a company then there's probably nothing to keep private.

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nasalgoat8y ago

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