Re:Mastodon’s Eternal September Begins
by jabits on Thursday November 10, 2022 @05:03PM
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This of course is nonsense. It takes some effort to host your own, but you can do it, and there are hundreds of email providers out there. And there is the middle ground of getting your own domain and “hosting” your own for $6/month with Microsoft 365 for example…
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Re:Mastodon’s Eternal September Begins
by macintux on Thursday November 10, 2022 @06:45PM
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From the discussions here on HN the challenge doesn’t seem to be hosting your own so much as getting other mail providers to allow your email.
Receiving is easy. Sending is much harder than it used to be.
Re:Mastodon’s Eternal September Begins
by joseda-hg on Thursday November 10, 2022 @07:49PM
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I recall reading here a guy complaining that self hosted emails we're super prone to blocking because they didn't come from a reputable Domain/address, and weren't whitelisted from some of the big guys
Which is kind of the problem, if you need to be approved by the Big guys, there's not much of a point of calling open and fair
You still can host for sure, but the moment M$/Gmail, blocks you, you've lost contact with half the people
Re:Mastodon’s Eternal September Begins
by simfree on Saturday November 12, 2022 @03:49PM
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IP and ASN reputation really matters, as does having SPF, DMARC, DKIM and Email Feedback Loop (FBL) properly configured.
That being said, there are production mail servers on OVH (bad reputation mail wise) that deliver plenty of mail to Microsoft, Google and Apple mail servers every day.