@DidacticDumbass@lemmy.one I do, it is a pain and I understand why it is not worth for some people.
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Nope. It can’t really be self hosted anymore, as having a residential IP is a straight track to the spam folder. It can be done if you also pay for a mail relay service, but then what’s the point of self hosting when you need to rely on a cloud service anyways.
Some dreams are born dead.
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Yes I run my own mailserver. I have done it for the last 15 years or so.
I'm also running my own Friendica instance.
Could you share you solution? You don't have to! I am just curious how you do it since a lot of people seem to hate it, compared to self-hosting everything else.
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I run my own Mailserver on a vps with mailcow dockerized. Was a real pain to set up, even through it mostly works right now.
DNS stuff isn't just some A or AAAA records, also txt stuff reverse DNS and much more. As the others said, that's completely impossible with a regular ISP.
I'm on some dumb blacklist because my IP is obviously in the IP range of my hosting provider, and some lists generally block all vps ranges.
Now imagine the following: your bank wants to contact you and your primary mail is selfhosted, for some reason they block your IP (yes outgoing blocks, those idiots) and you don't get some real important mail. Or your server is down for maintenance, certificate issues, so on.
The best solution is most probably letting a professional email holster take care of your domain, for email at least. Protonmail offers that but the problem I have with them is that they don't allow a regular login through thunderbird, restricted to their own software.
Yeah, ProtonMail does that so it can force them to pay to be logged in to multiple accounts at once, which is really frustrating. I mean, the business model makes sense, but damn, I only got 2 email addresses, I don't know what I would do with 10.
I setup my own instance and went with the free mail tier on brevo.com. They allow 300 relays per 24 hour period on the free tier. Their email stats and tracking looks decent too.
Prior to that I had setup my own postfix server, and while it worked fine, emails to gmail accounts were not getting through.
I'm using openbsd with dovcot, opensmtpd on a pi. I used mailhardener to get it scoring well. I've had no issues with it getting flagged.
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I want to do a setup where i use mailcow at home for receiving emails but Amazon ses SMTP for sending, it's possible? Looks like it is, but i didn't investigate it
Yes, it's possible, that's similar to my current setup. Mailcow in my homelab, but sending through a service called Postmark. It was better when Postmark had a credit based system, $1 for 1000 credits (sent emails). They've recently switched to a subscription model that is like $10-15 / mo. I find it works really well.
Infomaniak has pretty nice free email server options that you can link your domain to. They are a Switzerland based company which is known for having the best privacy laws around.
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