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Re:Statistics Professor Just Banned by Google: Here Is His S... by brianwawok on Monday August 21, 2017 @03:24PM (#15067026)
Do you find you have problems delivering to other mail servers?

That has always been the trick. Running the mail server is easy. Having your email show up in other servers is "hard". Right now, with so many users using GMAIL, using gmail is a huge boon to not being marked spam (Google is way less likely to market a @gmail.com email as spam compared to say a @aol.com email).

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Re:Statistics Professor Just Banned by Google: Here Is His S... by Clubber on Monday August 21, 2017 @03:39PM (#15067177)
I haven't had any issues but I've been hosting my own mail server since 2000 or so. I've been blacklisted by spamhaus? before years ago but I submitted a request to remove and they did. Google has a page to help with this though.

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126?hl=en&vid=0-107...

Also, I personally host at home and have Comcast business internet. I have a 5 IP block of which one is a mail server. I have occasional internet outages and more frequent power outages, but it's been fine.

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Re:Statistics Professor Just Banned by Google: Here Is His S... by CaptSpify on Monday August 21, 2017 @04:40PM (#15067691)
I'd like to add another voice to this: I host my own email myself out of my house, and I've never really had any problems with it either. AFAIK I've never been marked as spam, even after I've sent a couple of mis-configured emails that should have probably been marked as spam.
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Re:Statistics Professor Just Banned by Google: Here Is His S... by brianwawok on Monday August 21, 2017 @04:43PM (#15067710)
Have you ever done mailing list work? Like run a mailing list with a few tens of thousand users?
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Re:Statistics Professor Just Banned by Google: Here Is His S... by Clubber on Monday August 21, 2017 @06:05PM (#15068196)
I host some people's notification emails, so it will send a few hundred a month. I highly recommend putting a single email recipient per email.
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Re:Statistics Professor Just Banned by Google: Here Is His S... by CaptSpify on Monday August 21, 2017 @05:09PM (#15067874)
Nope. I can't say that I have. That definitely might be something that can get you flagged.
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Re:Statistics Professor Just Banned by Google: Here Is His S... by throwaway613834 on Monday August 21, 2017 @05:05PM (#15067854)
Your IP is leaked to everyone you email (and if you receive mail, to everyone who emails you), which is a privacy hole since it ties your IP directly to your identity. I assume you don't mind, or did you not realize this?
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Re:Statistics Professor Just Banned by Google: Here Is His S... by Clubber on Monday August 21, 2017 @05:57PM (#15068157)
The whois shows my company name. I mean since I run a company, I don't really want that private. Also, those IPs are accessible through a simple DNS lookup of the sender domain, so I'm not really losing any security.
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Re:Statistics Professor Just Banned by Google: Here Is His S... by throwaway613834 on Monday August 21, 2017 @07:08PM (#15068545)
Oh, I thought you were recommending this for consumer usage. Yeah, if you have a company then there's probably nothing to keep private.
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Re:Statistics Professor Just Banned by Google: Here Is His S... by Clubber on Monday August 21, 2017 @07:20PM (#15068600)
The hosting provider will probably put whatever you want in the whois.
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Re:Statistics Professor Just Banned by Google: Here Is His S... by throwaway613834 on Monday August 21, 2017 @07:27PM (#15068631)
The whois wasn't my concern though (since I already knew it was solvable); my concern was the IP address leakage, which gives away your location among other things...
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Re:Statistics Professor Just Banned by Google: Here Is His S... by nasalgoat on Monday August 21, 2017 @06:06PM (#15068206)
I run our own mail server at the office for our domain and I don't have any deliverability issues, but I made sure to have the full suite of DMARC, SPF, etc. all set up and kept current on the RBLs. Also it's very low volume, which I think is the key.
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