On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 09:47:24PM +0200, Pierre-Philipp Braun wrote: > > Can't get your email to go plain text, attachments work. > > If they don't, why not change providers? > > It's a bit of work, but almost anyone can setup their own email server > > for next to nearly free. > > That is not as easy as it was, mainly because of IP reputation. If you have > your own MX and outbound MTA/MSA you will have to go through painful > processes of getting out of blacklists, and even then your outgoing messages > might end-up in users' spambox. The game has changed, and it's for us > old-timers that life is rough, already.
Bare metal servers often have cheap lower end servers. Yes, if it's not in the cloud, some people think they aren't in the latest fad. I've yet to end up on any blacklist except SpamRats which dropping a message on their form page instantly clears up the problem. That is usually because of some little thing that hasn't propagated yet thorugh DNS. Spam boxes are no longer very useful. Censorship is in full swing. If I were to mention the last name of the founder of Windows, this email would immediately go into the spam box of places like gmail. If I were to send you an HTML email with that word in the text, same thing. Right now, us oldtimers are the only ones with much fundamental knowledge and experience. I was recently told by a youngster that I was a total idiot for working my way through the new CSS to understand it well. I needed to go straight over to some Framework that assumes I am stupid, which I would be if I didn't take the time to understand what I'm really accomplishing. Setting up an email server for strictly personal use is not that big a deal. For many users in a commercial setting, much harder. All IPs can get blacklisted. Bad IPs, change ISP's. One month to set things up and transfer over to a new server. Once everything is working, drop the crappy corporate email service. No big rush. My thoughts, for whatever they are worth. Chris Bennett
