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0 pointsbdamm4y ago0 comments

Back in 2010 this was reasonable. Now? Anti-spam functions have become quite the specialty, with DNS and email strongly intertwined. And that's all on top of the already significant burdens to run a non-relay hacker-proof server. There's a lot going on to operate reliable basic services on the Internet today.

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rodgerd4y ago

> Anti-spam functions have become quite the specialty, with DNS and email strongly intertwined.

Hmm, almost like Google have managed to make non-Google email impossible to do (excepting a few other very large outfits like Microsoft). What a happy accident that the de-facto answer is "give all your email to the advertising company".

nyuszika7h4y ago

This is true. I tried forwarding email going to my domain to Gmail, but it keeps getting flagged as spam despite setting up SPF, DKIM and DMARC. I ended up just setting up a filter to never send email addressed to @mydomain.com as spam and hope SpamAssassin catches most spam before Postfix forwards it.

grishka4y ago

IIRC you can send your outgoing mail through google too. But I'm not sure — I haven't set up the outgoing part in any way so I can only receive mail on my domain but not send.

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