Same here. I used to host out of my house. Now its on a server in a data center somewhere. Some of it is written in perl - which I have no problem reading (spamassassin).

You guys are reporting deliverability success precisely because you've (like me) been doing it for decades. The gmail filters know that your IP and sender domain are kosher. However if you were to set up a new domain and new server today the filters would default to "spammer" for your status.

Remember that the spam filters are aiming for "deliver no spam" rather than "deliver all legitimate email, but no spam" so your new server's messages being delivered helps the bonus prospects of nobody at Google.

The Internet is in a sad state of affairs when the consensus amung "hackers" is just to use gmail because gmail is so horrible to work with. I guess google is really becoming the new Microsoft.

I've moved between 3 different residential IPs in 5 years and I've never had that problem. I really don't get why other people think it's so hard.

Sure, my grandmother isn't likely to build her own mail-server, but anyone with a spare computer, and a spare afternoon can.

I set up my domain and email server only a couple years ago and it works well, but like some of the others here who've reported success, I'm not running a big operation.