> But how much time do you spend dealing with that? Is it worth it?
Oh not much now -- to be honest with you 99% of the time when it's an issue it's because I changed something on my side.
Maybe I got lucky with the IPs I have (I use dedicated servers), and I've held them a while. What was jarring about the original post by Carlos is that he did all that AND he's been doing it 23 years and it was still a problem.
It made me recall that one of the things I struggled with a long time ago was just setting up Postfix/Dovecot correctly. These days no one should be running into that.
> I self hosted my email for more than a decade but I gave up when the time spent was just too much.
Unfortunately I don't doubt this assessment. I just want people to know that if difficulty/technical work was a blocker, it is now mostly not (with the news software out there).
As other people pointed out, there are services for improving deliverability that could fix the other (bigger) issue, and hopefully people could consider doing that going forward.
At the end of the day people have to do what's right for them of course but I just want people to know that things HAVE gotten easier. It's the big companies that are making it hard now.
Oh not much now -- to be honest with you 99% of the time when it's an issue it's because I changed something on my side.
Maybe I got lucky with the IPs I have (I use dedicated servers), and I've held them a while. What was jarring about the original post by Carlos is that he did all that AND he's been doing it 23 years and it was still a problem.
It made me recall that one of the things I struggled with a long time ago was just setting up Postfix/Dovecot correctly. These days no one should be running into that.
> I self hosted my email for more than a decade but I gave up when the time spent was just too much.
Unfortunately I don't doubt this assessment. I just want people to know that if difficulty/technical work was a blocker, it is now mostly not (with the news software out there).
As other people pointed out, there are services for improving deliverability that could fix the other (bigger) issue, and hopefully people could consider doing that going forward.
At the end of the day people have to do what's right for them of course but I just want people to know that things HAVE gotten easier. It's the big companies that are making it hard now.