jodyribton

The problem is package managers aren't consistent across distributions. If you want to provide a binary version of your app, you should be providing at least .deb, .rpm and tarball packages.

In practice, everyone's just targeting Ubuntu and publishing .debs.

Thanks for the encouragement! I might take another shot at it sometime. I had this server running for about 3 months with just my personal mail, sending probably 1 email per day on average. It's possible slightly higher volume would do a better job of "warming up" the IP.

I self-hosted from about 2007-2008 and 2011-2013, and had nowhere near as much trouble with deliverability. It came as a bit of a surprise how much more difficult it is these days.

I was actually hosting on Linode (UK). My hunch was that they would be one of the more reputable networks; I've run small mail servers on them before (2+ years ago) without any problems.

It's a pity there's no easy way (that I know of) to look up the reputation for an entire network block. I'm glad to hear your experience with Linode matches mine.