Comment by dwedge
5 hours ago
Not the person you replied to, and it's impossible to know with certainty how often you're in someone else's spam, but very rarely.
I had an issue with yahoo a couple of years ago that's all. The "it read like there's a whole science" is sadly a trope mostly repeated by people who have never tried because it gets upvotes on Reedit.
There are some steps you have to take, but not many, and systems like Mox mailserver or stalwart guide you through it, and mail-tester will check if you got it right.
Email, other than tweaking spam filters, is one of my lowest maintenance systems. I can't remember the last time I touched Exim or Mox config
You got me really interested here, I ran my own mailserver years ago and eventually just gave it up. I am getting rid of Google Workspace and have been planning a migration to Proton for two domains. But this sounds like a fun project. Any advice? I am going to check out Mox and Stalwart.
What providers are good hosting candidates, I have a website on DO, but from my understanding their entire ranges are blacklisted heavily.
If I remember rightly DO have some restrictions like port 25 on ipv6 outbound being blocked.
I can't speak for all of them but I use mythic beasts in the UK for one mail server (they are a very knowledgeable old school host) and it has been good. I also have dedicated with OVH which is fine, and a couple small scale (eg simplelogin, a notification server) with IONOS but they only deliver to me so I can't say how reliably they deliver elsewhere.
Mox is great but I think it's still alpha. I've been using it for 2 years in production for a small traffic domain. The other I use Exim (with mythic beast's Sympl that sets it up) but it's a little more hands on at the beginning
Excellent thanks