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by lutusp 266 days ago
> "If something isn't working for you, please double-check your DNS records, and triple-check that TLS certificates are readable by the Postfix user, and that DKIM keys are readable by the OpenDKIM user. Postfix and OpenDKIM logs will also be useful. The OpenDKIM config file is especially unforgiving of typos, so watch out for small mistakes!"

I tried this over a period of years, aggressively changing my email server configuration as new challenges appeared, before realizing the basic problems were (a) a server's configuration is a moving target that requires constant revision, and (b) if your ISP has ever hosted a spammer, even briefly and inadvertently, then its entire address block may be universally blacklisted and you have to change ISPs, possibly several times.

So ... I gave up. If I had nothing better to do, if I just wanted to play email server whack-a-mole, that would be different, but I have a life apart from pleading with giant email recipients to trust my little server.

It's not as though Google, Microsoft, et al. have an incentive to trust small email servers -- quite the opposite. They can -- and do -- make the argument that they shouldn't trust anything but another big player like themselves.