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by greengreengrass 5 days ago
My setup is more complicated than it needs to be for $reasons (I like playing with networking protocols, have my own v6 prefix and ASN etc. and my mail and other important personal services are hosted across multiple sites for redundancy), but any competent VPS host that offers you a static IP - coupled with some DKIM, SPF and DMARC configuration that will take an afternoon - should solve the problem. I rarely touch my home setup and it works fine; mail doesn’t go to reputation black holes and it’s been like this (literally) for decades. I invest in architectural tweaks and improvements perhaps every 5 years.

I do run similar infrastructure professionally for a living, which probably helps with getting it right first time. Competent VPS hosts care about IP reputation for mail; e.g. Hetzner only allows outbound port 25 for “trusted” customers, which somewhat helps with abuse reports. Some hosting providers may even let you relay via their own outbound hosts if you have a VPS with them, which simplifies the operational aspect.

I rarely need to send from the catch all address, but Postfix can easily be configured to allow my user to send from other addresses, and then it’s just a case of adding as an alias in your mail user agent.