[boboralice]

I have several different setups. I bought a domain and pointed it to Zoho to have 'easy' email and apps. I also have a fully self-hosted mailinabox setup, and I've done things "by hand" too, just because it's fun.

These days it's hard to mess up even by hand, you'd have to go out of your way to have your server turned into a zombie spam farm or whatever.

The only "problem" I've had recently was buying a server and finding the IP was already spam blacklisted. Getting removed from the blacklist was just a matter of submitting a request on the relevant maintainer's site.

The only major gotcha I had was the time I linked my domain registration account to an email address that was linked to a domain held on that account. I went on holiday and missed the renewal bill, then couldn't log in to pay because email was one of the 2FA steps. I felt like an absolute moron contacting support about that one!