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Re:Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choic... by patja on Friday December 24, 2021 @12:23PM (#29675424)
You can have the best of both worlds with self-hosting received mail and achieving good deliverability by using a service such as Amazon SES. SES will probably cost you less than $10 a year for personal email sending volumes. I use it for my business and it is less than $15/yr. Rarely get a bill for more than $1. They hold you accountable for any abuse/complaints, which is a good thing.
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Re:Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choic... by OJFord on Friday December 24, 2021 @01:06PM (#29675995)
I use it for personal use, would also recommend. It's not 'self-hosting' of course, but that's not what I actually care about personally, more interested in 'running my own' regardless of whether it's physically my hardware or not.

(Or rather given everything I've read about self-hosting email, not regardless, this is my preference...)

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Re:Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choic... by iggldiggl on Saturday December 25, 2021 @02:43PM (#29686308)
For a private mail server operator, Amazon SES is somewhat annoying because if your mail server is down, they're only keeping mails in the delivery queue for something like eight hours or so, which is way too short if you're not a big provider who can commit to round-the-clock support for the mail server.
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Re:Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choic... by patja on Sunday December 26, 2021 @04:37PM (#29696625)
I keep a backup postfix server in a different location from the primary. It all kicked in once about 3 months ago and worked beautifully.
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Re:Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choic... by vineyardmike on Saturday December 25, 2021 @02:11PM (#29686031)
How do you use SES for this? It seems to only allow receipt of email conveniently. Sending seems to require using an api which is not something most people want to do to email others.
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Re:Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choic... by patja on Sunday December 26, 2021 @04:34PM (#29696602)
You can create smtp credentials for use in any email client. The api is optional.
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