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Re:Deploy a Gmail-like email server in 30 (ish) minutes by berkes on Sunday December 26, 2021 @10:48AM (#29693321)
...or for choosing the wrong VPS provider. Op talks about Digital Ocean. But, just like Linode or EC2, their IP blocks are inevitably on some undisclosed blocklist that livemail, yahoo, gmail randomly use.
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Re:Deploy a Gmail-like email server in 30 (ish) minutes by mattl on Sunday December 26, 2021 @11:06AM (#29693510)
Digital Ocean sends so much bad traffic in the form of bots trying to run cars numbers we’ve had their entire AS blocked for several years.
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Re:Deploy a Gmail-like email server in 30 (ish) minutes by InvaderFizz on Sunday December 26, 2021 @02:07PM (#29695292)
> bots trying to run cars numbers

I'm having trouble parsing this. Are you talking about VINs?

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Re:Deploy a Gmail-like email server in 30 (ish) minutes by tylersmith on Sunday December 26, 2021 @02:18PM (#29695385)
My best guess is it was a typo for (credit/debit) card numbers.
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Re:Deploy a Gmail-like email server in 30 (ish) minutes by mattl on Sunday December 26, 2021 @02:24PM (#29695436)
Yep sorry. Autocorrect.
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Re:Deploy a Gmail-like email server in 30 (ish) minutes by filmgirlcw on Sunday December 26, 2021 @02:34PM (#29695527)
I was going to say, IP blocks for DO make it one of the last places I would use for serving mail I actually wanted to be deliverable.
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