Hello everyone, nice to meet you all.
This question was probably asked around here but is it really possible to be your own mail provider?
I think I’m experienced enough when it comes to homelabbing that I could take on something like this.
I THINK im aware of the technicalities, I did some research but it still begs the question, is it really worth it? would it be hard to build up a reputation so that your emails don’t land in spam folders?
What about purely receiving emails? Receiving them isn’t anywhere near as bad as sending. My friend uses his own server/domain for his “spam mail”/dgaf accounts. He can use whatever address he wants and it goes into a catch all bucket. It makes it easy to track when your email is sold/leaked, but none of the finickyness of like plus tags in gmail
I selfhost mail and have no problem receiving. The only problem is spam. However I’ve found that just dropping anything that isn’t over TLS and passes SPF is fine. I don’t use a spam filter.
actually that’s a good question, would be nice if I could maybe buy a domain and just purely receive and not send, would be beneficial for signing up to services and organizing them, something I’m willing to go with if the entirely self hosted route fails