Discussion
Maybe I should pin this:
- Yes, you can run your own mail server on a cheap VPS (Virtual Private Server)
- Yes, it's cheap. €5/month for a VPS and €10/year for your own domain, if you take a .eu
- Yes, you should configure SPF, DKIM, DMARC
- Yes, with that in place Google, Microsoft and other big providers will accept your emails
- Yes, you can manage incoming spam in effective and automated ways
- Yes, all Open Source.
- No, it doesn't need a lot of admin work, 5 min/day
(and get your popcorn for the expected barrage of replies with counter arguments, trying to tell you that you shouldn't even think about owning your infrastructure ;)
@jwildeboer Well said. Now I feel like many of us should pin this.
@jwildeboer 5min/day is much too much for most no-tech people with busy schedules.
@Mela Most spend far more time on TikTok or Facebook ;)
@jwildeboer the cheaper the vpns, the higher the chance you get a sender ip that is already included in a ton of blacklists (says my personal experience from like 5 years ago where i tried hetzner, ovh and a local freebie and all 3 servers came with spamhaus entry included)
@cy That was 5 years ago. My mailserver is running at OVH and has never been blocklisted in the past 10 years. Blocklists mostly affect IPv4 addresses, but for IPv6 they stopped making sense anyway. My mailserver happily sends and receives with both IPv4 and IPv6.
@jwildeboer i've been procrastinating getting into self-hosting for a while. maybe ill give it a go again
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@jwildeboer mailcow for suggestions:)
@george I prefer basic postfix+dovecot, but everyone has their preferences.
@jwildeboer Thanks, and it needs to be pinned.
On the other hand,would you help to boost our work as we are looking for sponsors and donors to make us achieve the community land goal?