I tried maybe 15 years ago and it went about as well as you’d expect for back then. But I’m starting to get the itch again.

Have any of you tried relatively recently? How impossible is it to get reliable deliverability to gmail and whatnot these days?

  • Neo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    I’ve been self hosting email successfully for 20 years. My goto article for this question:

    https://poolp.org/posts/2019-08-30/you-should-not-run-your-mail-server-because-mail-is-hard/

    TLDR;

    • Mail is not hard: people keep repeating that because they read it, not because they tried it
    • Big Mailer Corps are quite happy with that myth, it keeps their userbase growing
    • Big Mailer Corps control a large percentage of the e-mail address space which is good for none of us
    • It’s ok that people have their e-mails hosted at Big Mailer Corps as long as there’s enough people outside too