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[–] Tinnitus 15 points 1 year ago (14 children)

I figured email would be a common theme. I’m just starting to dip my toes into all of this, so an email server is not on my to-do list (and may never be).

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Google and other large scale providers have intentionally made it very difficult to self host your own email. It’s generally not considered a wise move these days and is very difficult to maintain.

[–] peregus 3 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Why do you say so? I'm not an expert in the fields, but isn't a mail server pretty much the same as 20 years ago plus DKIM and SPF?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ip-reputation is also important. Mailgun, an email service for mass mailing, is doing an „ip-warmup“ if you choose a dedicated ip. So, if you are self-hosting with dynamic-ip, i think you would have a very very low ip-reputation.

[–] peregus 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True, but this has nothing to do with Google and other, is a well done method to avoid spam.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

so what else is a factor for reputation? Or is it like if you dont pay to get your mail-domain whitelisted we lower your reputation score?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@loppwn @peregus not having PTR, DKIM, SPF, DMARC correctly setup is a killer, but there are great solutions for this nowadays, both #cloudron and #Yunohost take care of that part pretty well

[–] peregus 1 points 1 year ago

No idea! I don't run my own mail server. But if you read a bit up here, there's a guy who runs his own mail server(s) since years. But the selfhosted world seems to be full (well...not so full) of people that self host their mail server.

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