Re:Fastmail is having problems again
by nobody9999 on Friday October 22, 2021 @07:42PM
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>I'm thinking of trying to stand up my own server on my own domain and see if I can get a good deliverability established.
I've been doing that for decades.
I had some deliverability issues back in the early aughts, but I haven't had issues for many years.
Over the past decade or so, SPF/DKIM/DMARC and not running an open relay (not that I ever did that) has kept deliverability very good for me.
That said, none of the IP addresses I've used are on consumer ISP ranges. That may have an impact too.
You could also stand up a receiving server and then relay outbound through something like Postmark. Deliverability is the hardest part, it's worth it to farm it out.
^^^ This 100%. It's relatively easy these days to run a mail server, inbound even has a level of resilience that serves most people.
It's being delivered into the inbox that is an issue. You can eventually get there with a good IP and time but it's best to farm it out - plenty of services out there for it.
Re:Fastmail is having problems again
by chrisweekly on Friday October 22, 2021 @07:19PM
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I think deliverability is going to be a bigger challenge than uptime; good luck!
It may not have better uptime than Fastmail or Gmail but it's also very unlikely to ever come under focused attack.
There's a certain resiliency in having a lot of small entities doing the same thing, compared to a handful of gargantuan ones that can take down huge user populations in an instant.