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Re:Mail in a Box by lisper on Monday November 25, 2019 @02:22PM (#21631727)
I've been running my own mail server for about 15 years now. Getting it set up is a fair bit of work. The hardest part is just deciding how you want things configured. It has been pretty much hands-off for ten years now. Dealing with spam has been the biggest annoyance, but even that hasn't been too horrible, and it forced me to learn how to write milters. I pay for commercial hosting so my mail comes from a "reputable" IP address. I once got blacklisted by Spamhaus because I accidentally enabled an open relay, but that was easy enough to fix and it hasn't happened since.

AMA if you decide to take this on, I'm happy to help.

Re:Mail in a Box by velosol on Monday November 25, 2019 @05:52PM (#21633709)
When you say 'reputable' IP do you mean non-residential or is something like AWS, Linode, etc enough?

Edit: duplicate to sibling, apparently I had this tab open longer than I thought.

Re:Mail in a Box by lisper on Monday November 25, 2019 @06:57PM (#21634267)
Yes, I meant non-residential, and also not AWS. The problem with AWS is that a lot of spammers use it, and so a lot of AWS IP addresses get tainted. If you go with a smaller ISP that charges more it's less likely that their clients will be spammers. But to be fair, I've never tried running a mail server on AWS. It's possible that you could do it and not have any problems, I don't actually know. It's probably an experiment worth doing.
Re:Mail in a Box by stephenr on Monday November 25, 2019 @03:31PM (#21632462)
... can you expand on what you mean by “commercial” hosting?
Re:Mail in a Box by lisper on Monday November 25, 2019 @03:35PM (#21632506)
Sorry, that was a very poor choice of words. What I actually meant was "a small commercial hosting company", i.e. not Amazon. Amazon IPs can have a dicey provenance.

(Actually, the company was recently acquired so they may not be so small any more. The company is called ZeroLag and they were acquired by Total Server Solutions.)

Re:Mail in a Box by stephenr on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @12:26AM (#21635831)
Right that’s what I figured you were using, thanks for confirming!