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How hard is it to host your own mail server? From what I can see it look pretty much top tier
If you want to make sure people get your emails, and you don't want to deal with constant spam issues yourself, I'd recommend not running your own.
You apparently easily get your emails stuck in spam filters if you self-host. Also, you'd need to have 100% uptime for this to work as intended, not particularly easy in my situation.
I've done it, and I do not recommend it if you actually plan for people to receive your emails.
I managed to adapt for about 95% of mail servers to accept my mails, but it was a lot of work. I'm pretty sure some of those measurements are intended to discourage people from self hosting.
It took me around 4 hours to get to that point, and sometimes my mail would still go into junk, especially on gmail inboxes.
You were way faster than me 😂
Gmail worked for me, but some bigger German providers just refused to accept my mail. I used a website that tested the server config and gave hints how to proceed. That was incredible helpful.
The hard part is getting a a host that allows the ports, a “clean / private” static public IP and a matching reverse lookup record for it.
Email servers and spf / dmarc / dkim are not that hard to setup. There is still going to be a “trust” period for some spam filters but if you did everything else right it isn’t too hard other than in bound spam filtering.