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Have you tried self-hosting your own email recently? (news.idlestate.org)
submitted 9 months ago by azdle@news.idlestate.org to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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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?

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[–] JRaccoon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I recently set up the whole stack (Postfix, Dovecot, OpenDKIM) on a VPS. I wanted to do it from home, but my ISP won't provide a static IP or open ports 25/465/587 for consumer customers, no exceptions.

It took me about two days to get everything working, but most of that was because I went in with very little knowledge of how email even actually works. If you're looking for a learning experience, I'd say go for it. If you just want a working email setup quickly, I wouldn't recommend it.

I haven't noticed any deliverability issues so far. Just make sure you have SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and PTR records all set correctly from the start.

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Which VPS provider are you using? Many of them end up blacklisted for mail delivery due to spammers using them.