Re:G Suite Horror Story
by nvarsj on Sunday August 05, 2018 @08:42AM
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I did the same for many years. Until I noticed that some people just never got my emails. Mostly people with business emails - I'd send something job related, and never hear back, just assuming they weren't interested. It took me a while to figure out that some email providers (outlook.com is one example) will just outright block small email hosts, despite following all the best practices like DKIM, DMARC, SPF. It's a lost cause trying to host your own email. I've been on fastmail for the last year or so with my custom domain, and it all seems to work great.
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It's ironic that outlook.com blocked you when it itself is too costly to block in that you can't tell whether the message is important from a contact at say a Fortune 500 or another Nigerian scam.
Like you I ran my own stuff but possibly unlike I didn't encounter issues with recipients other than yahoo. I ran it from home from 2001 until last month and paid extra for a /29 static block from the phone company.