Re:Small mail server best current practices
by jeffbee on Sunday July 26, 2020 @07:51PM
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> a user managing to get hacked and their account used to send a couple hundred spam e-mails
For this reason one of the necessities of survival as an email sender is to classify your own outbound messages, to see if recipients might think they are spammy. If they just look spammy but you still want to send them, you need sacrificial IP addresses on separate netblocks that are dedicated to spam, so the reputation of your main IPs isn't polluted.
If there's any possibility that any of your users could get their account hijacked, or there could be malware on any device permitted to send messages, you need outbound classification.
For this reason one of the necessities of survival as an email sender is to classify your own outbound messages, to see if recipients might think they are spammy. If they just look spammy but you still want to send them, you need sacrificial IP addresses on separate netblocks that are dedicated to spam, so the reputation of your main IPs isn't polluted.
If there's any possibility that any of your users could get their account hijacked, or there could be malware on any device permitted to send messages, you need outbound classification.