Re:Ask HN: Self hosted email, Cloud storage and dovecot
by mpldr on Thursday April 06, 2023 @03:42AM
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They should pay their engineers to fix their MTA-STS validation. Haven't done so in ages. If you think you're not up to selfhosting (which in my experience is quite feasible and comfortable): please choose a provider that is not one of the surveillance capitalists. Recommendations are Migadu and mailbox.org
Re:Ask HN: Self hosted email, Cloud storage and dovecot
by mpalfrey on Thursday April 06, 2023 @09:34AM
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Exactly the same here. I had email hosted with TSOHost here a few years ago and had no end of problems with bounce backs.
In the end I moved it all to GSuite for a few bucks a month. It's simply worth it to avoid the issues with sender rep.
Mail is the one thing I eventually caved on and offload to Microsoft. It's an uphill battle keeping your mail out of Spam folders. You setup DKIM, SPF, etc. according to the latest spec, and at the end of the day, the MS and Google still drop your mail in spam. They simply don't care.
Second, the forces and money keeping MS above legally bound 99.9% uptime tower in comparison to any one person's own resources. Is your daily driver even operational 99% of the time you use it? We hackers can't help but to tinker, so I suppose not.
MS has teams of engineers paid specifically to keep the thing running and NOT tinker. At only ~$10 / month that's a no brainer.