Re:Break free from traditional email - Host your own server
by lucb1e on Sunday October 22, 2017 @08:22AM
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> Setting up is easy, maintaining and responding to all the blocks you may get is ongoing and simply cumbersome.
The only real issues I had were with Gmail for a few months, until they got used to the IP address sending legit email. You have to instruct people to look in their spam folder (of which Gmail hides the existence, an evil thing in itself) until people marked like 10 emails as being non-spam over the course of a few months. Hardly had any trouble otherwise, and I don't even use DKIM nor a reverse DNS for all domains (only SPF because that was easy to do, and with 1 IP address I can do only 1 reverse DNS, and only v4 at that).
It helps that I've got a static address, and it might also help that XS4ALL (ISP) has a good abuse team that probably keeps the netblock quite clean. I don't know to what degree this affected my experience.
The only real issues I had were with Gmail for a few months, until they got used to the IP address sending legit email. You have to instruct people to look in their spam folder (of which Gmail hides the existence, an evil thing in itself) until people marked like 10 emails as being non-spam over the course of a few months. Hardly had any trouble otherwise, and I don't even use DKIM nor a reverse DNS for all domains (only SPF because that was easy to do, and with 1 IP address I can do only 1 reverse DNS, and only v4 at that).
It helps that I've got a static address, and it might also help that XS4ALL (ISP) has a good abuse team that probably keeps the netblock quite clean. I don't know to what degree this affected my experience.