> I would say deliverability is the most important feature for email.
You're not wrong, but the thing is, the deliverability problem is not completely broken.
I don't have a problem sending emails with my self-hosted stack with DKIM, DMARC, and SPF set up. That said, some people do.
I lightly monitor my domains to make sure they're not on blacklists and have figured out how to get things working over time.
The battle isn't lost yet -- some people have problems and others do, but discouraging people from self-hosting is not the way to fix it.
My main point is that while deliverability can still be hard, many of the other things that made sending email hard (configuring postfix, dovecot and DNS correctly) have become drastically easier.
You're not wrong, but the thing is, the deliverability problem is not completely broken.
I don't have a problem sending emails with my self-hosted stack with DKIM, DMARC, and SPF set up. That said, some people do.
I lightly monitor my domains to make sure they're not on blacklists and have figured out how to get things working over time.
The battle isn't lost yet -- some people have problems and others do, but discouraging people from self-hosting is not the way to fix it.
My main point is that while deliverability can still be hard, many of the other things that made sending email hard (configuring postfix, dovecot and DNS correctly) have become drastically easier.