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Announcement: All-in-one JMAP, IMAP and SMTP server
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A good read about self hosted email servers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32715437
If you are going to use it within your family members it will be fine, but not with other users who uses corporate provided email services.
I think there's a lot of FUD around this. Yes, deliverability can be a PITA, but with a clean IP and good setup it's usually solvable. Worst case, you can pay a small amount to use a 3rd party SMTP relay and still get most of the benefits of selfhosting. It wasn't deliverability that made me stop selfhosting it was spam, and it wasn't that dealing with spam was that hard, it was just annoying.
As an anecdote -- I have been sitting on an elastic IP at AWS for years, with reverse DNS configured properly for it. Way early on (years ago), some spam filters would block the whole netblock, but I can't remember the last time the IP Block was wholesale blocked. I think AWS is very much on top of any spam complaints from their Elastic IPs, and as long as you don't abuse your specific IP, you are in good shape for light volume, non-spam mail.
I use Mail-in-a-Box (planning to move to ISPMail though) and i rarely have deliverability issues. My main issue is actually that the grey filter takes too long for my preferences! With self hosting mail, i consider that a good issue to have
This is unfortunately true. That much said, the tide may be slowly turning in our favor as more and more people discover non-corporate, free and open source social media. Some of my circle of tech friends have deleted all corporate social media and have stood up instances of Mastodon or Akkoma, Friendica, Pixelfed, and Lemmy or Kbin for family.
Eventually, people will be asking themselves why they bother using gmail.com, outlook.com, and yahho.com addresses when they can just do it themselves for friends and family. The internet was never meant to be controlled by a select few corporations. It was always intended to be decentralized to avoid a single point of failure so as to continue to mostly work in the case of war, catastrophe, or both.