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by gylterud 2645 days ago
Running a mail server which receives mail is easy. Getting your e-mails delivered can be more difficult. But so far (I have been running a personal e-mail server since 2007), I have gotten most of my e-mails delivered.
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h1d 2645 days ago
It's no longer your job to deliver emails. Just use a delivery service like SendGrid, SES, etc.
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gylterud 2645 days ago
It can be if you want to. But yeah, businesses probably want to pay someone for it. And many ISPs will do it for their customers as well.
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h1d 2645 days ago
It's pretty much out of your control. If the server you rented has a tainted IP reputation, you're done for. Instead of cycling through to get the good IP, which isn't too easy to tell, you should just use a proxy service.

If you're on a small scale, those 2 services I mentioned aren't going to cost you much (free and maybe about 5 cents a month.)

I even proxy my hobby personal domain server because I don't want my personal mails get buried in people's junk folder.

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