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Re:Mail in a Box by phs318u on Monday November 25, 2019 @03:47PM (#21632631)

For those considering running their own mail server (like me), perhaps a more pertinent dataset is the list of hosters that seem to work without problem (not spam blocked) and those that have proven problematic. If anyone could chime in it would be much appreciated.

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Re:Mail in a Box by oats on Monday November 25, 2019 @04:05PM (#21632812)

I have been running my mail server on a digitalocean vps without any spam-block issues for about 2 years now.

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Re:Mail in a Box by eikenberry on Monday November 25, 2019 @04:55PM (#21633227)

DO does get blacklisted on occasion. I've moved my SMTP server elsewhere do to AT&T blocking my emails. They use UCEProtect which will block all DO from time to time.

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Re:Mail in a Box by 0x0000000 on Monday November 25, 2019 @04:52PM (#21633204)

DigitalOcean no longer allows SMTP, you may be grandfathered in.

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Re:Mail in a Box by dredmorbius on Monday November 25, 2019 @05:25PM (#21633469)

At all, or by default?

In many cases, additional services (ports) are available on request. This is largely a spam-management (outbound) issue for service providers.

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Re:Mail in a Box by gertrunde on Monday November 25, 2019 @06:14PM (#21633914)

Apparently you need to be a customer for 60+ days of 'stable use' before they'll enable smtp.

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Re:Mail in a Box by rurounijones on Monday November 25, 2019 @05:11PM (#21633363)

I setup my mailinabox instance about 2 months ago without issue.

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Re:Mail in a Box by juskrey on Monday November 25, 2019 @04:09PM (#21632847)

Hetzner Cloud > 1y OK.

Had to clean up IP from two or so blacklists.

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Re:Mail in a Box by TimWolla on Monday November 25, 2019 @05:40PM (#21633579)

I can second Hetzner. In my case with their dedicated offering, though. Been running mail servers there since at least 2013 with next to no problems.

Google sometimes put mails into the spam folder, though not in recent times. Microsoft tends to block unused IP addresses by default, there's a Wiki page on how to request an unblock: https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Microsoft_Blacklist/en

I sign all my emails using DKIM and have good domain reputation.

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Re:Mail in a Box by generalpass on Monday November 25, 2019 @07:36PM (#21634503)

I have experienced no ISP-related issues for self-hosted mail on Rackspace, Linode, and Vultr in U.S. DCs.

Note that I've heard Vultr in EU requires trouble ticket to open mail ports.

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Re:Mail in a Box by copperx on Monday November 25, 2019 @07:44PM (#21634576)

What about bigger hosts, such as AWS and Google Cloud?

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Re:Mail in a Box by ttul on Monday November 25, 2019 @09:49PM (#21635246)

You have to fill in a form to send email from an amazon EIP, but generally delivery from Amazon IPs is poor.

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Re:Mail in a Box by generalpass on Monday November 25, 2019 @08:18PM (#21634817)

I really don't have any experience with them.

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Re:Mail in a Box by icelancer on Monday November 25, 2019 @09:58PM (#21635298)

DigitalOcean worked for me once I cleared up some blacklists.

Send mail to mail-tester.com and work from there on SPF/DKIM and blacklists.

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Re:Mail in a Box by vajenetehais on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @02:02AM (#21636164)

OVH works well for me. Since 2 years I guess. I took the smallest VPS.

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Re:Mail in a Box by zitterbewegung on Monday November 25, 2019 @05:38PM (#21633559)

Amazon workmail.

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Re:Mail in a Box by commoner on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @02:52AM (#21636364)

Amazon WorkMail is a managed email solution (like the ones included in G Suite, Office 365, and Zoho), not a generic server host or a self-hosted email solution. It's also closed source, unlike the open source Mail-in-a-Box.

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