Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choice, not a practical one

Re:Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choic... by dmw_ng on Friday December 24, 2021 @10:15AM (#29674219)

> Sending your mail yourself is the real hard part

It's possible to punt on this by using SES for outbound, while continuing to handle inbound a different way. Obviously SES doesn't count as fully self-hosted, but it does solve (or at least significantly ameliorate -- zero issues here) the reputation problem

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Re:Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choic... by judge2020 on Friday December 24, 2021 @10:18AM (#29674254)

I think that's what they're talking about in terms of 'you don't send your own mail', but it is a good solution and SPF+DKIM means you should have very few issues with deliverability and reputation.

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Re:Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choic... by blibble on Friday December 24, 2021 @11:10AM (#29674710)

spammers tend to set up SPF/DKIM

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Re:Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choic... by judge2020 on Friday December 24, 2021 @11:41AM (#29675027)

I mean that SES gives you SES IP reputation, and they force you to have a low bounce rate & complaint rate, thus SES specifically is usually not blocked by big providers nor small enterprise networks.

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Re:Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choic... by gruez on Friday December 24, 2021 @04:02PM (#29677703)

>It's possible to punt on this by using SES for outbound

How does this work? Do you just sign up for aws, then set your outbound SMTP to whatever SES provides?

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Re:Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choic... by z0f on Friday December 24, 2021 @05:17PM (#29678301)

Yep, you just configure your outbound SMTP server to be the SES credentials and adjust your SPF/DKIM records.

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