Thanks for the replies.
I'm not sure I still want to self-host, honestly. The amount of time it
has cost me to keep this setup afloat despite being in Google's
crosshairs is mind-blowing, and I no longer get any satisfaction from
it. It was great while it lasted, but right now I'd be over the moon if
I could just drop my mail somewhere, configure it, and stop worrying
about spam scores and availability and so on.
Requirements are fairly straightforward - no particular legal
obligations for anything, a handful of users, a dozen domains, 180-ish
mail addresses. From those 180, 110+ can be replaced by user+tag@domain
(currently each of those is a proper virtual address for historical
reasons) and another 40-50 are "technical" accounts - postmaster, admin,
info, webmaster, abuse. So I could fit in the Protonmail "Visionary"
scheme without a problem.
I was looking at Protonmail because the company doesn't have access to
the mail it hosts (hello, Google and scanning private communications),
is located in a European country with tough laws, and seems to have a
good reputation. "Seems", since apart from a handful of people I know
who use it I haven't got much of a view on them. Hence asking here.
On 2020-01-27 14:39, Yiorgos [George] Adamopoulos wrote:
If you still want to self-host, maybe use something like Mailgun as a
relay service? I am running a small discussion list on a RPi and it
distributes email via Mailgun with no complaints from the participants
so far.
On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 3:07 PM Lennert Van Alboom via mailop
<[email protected]> wrote:
I've been self hosting all of my stuff for years - websites, DNS, mail
- but it's become increasingly difficult to keep the mail part afloat.
Google
is the most notorious roadblock - even though I have a dedicated
public subnet, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, SRS and antispam implemented, and 99%
of mail is
plaintext with occasionaly some attachments, most of my mail is dumped
into "Spam" on their side, both for gmail and the business services.
Sometimes
even delivering is being refused at connect time. The amount of time I
lose on calling people and checking their spam folder is just too
much, knowing
I have a business to run with those mails.
My stuff runs at Hetzner (dedicated hardware, /29 subnet for myself).
From what I've read in a mail thread here earlier, the problem is
almost
certainly with the network reputation of Hetzner; bad neighbours drag
down the whole netblock, and I'm collateral damage. Nothing can be
done except
moving to another hoster and praying I don't bump into the same
problem there.
I'm tired of fighting the windmills. Protonmail looks good on paper;
it's not cheap, but neither is my hosting now. Does anyone have
experience with
them? Any catches? Alternatives?
Thanks,
Lennert
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