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by tschumacher 803 days ago
I have the same gripe and in response published the notes to set up my self hosted email on my blog a few months ago [1]. It's really not that hard but yet we constantly see this topic on HN. I understand there are people who've set it up properly and still have their mail end up in spam. Maybe we're just lucky. But there's no need to write long pieces about this going into detail what this tech giant and that tech giant do. All you can do is set up DMARC, DKIM and SPF - that's it.

EDIT: Admittedly this post is also about bulk sending where other metrics like unsubscribe links and spaminess matter. But for the self hosted crew it really just comes down to DMARC, DKIM and SPF.

[1] https://tschumacher.net/self-host-email/

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What I have gleaned from the HN discourse over the years is that the people who are mad about this topic actually are spammers. They want to spam you and they are super pissed off that their little scammy idea isn't working.