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We host our emali server as well on an fully encrypted dedicated server with some other infra stuff. We have no delivery issues so far, all works fine. We use a Hetzner IP as we do not want to run it on our own network for some reasons.
Mailcow is our stack we use and it is super easy to install and very good. It also offers some nice features like email aliases with expiry date.
Oh, and I forgot to mention it also has a calendar and contact sync feature
@Mynymbox how is the reliability/deliverability of E-mail on an Hetzner ip? I am genuinely curious to know.
@Mynymbox - any deals for LET? You know you can advertise in megathreads (such as the Easter Megathread) without a provider tag.
It's a disaster
As said, we have no issues so far. Emails reach the recipient
Not yet, as we don't have that many resources right now to run deals
We are also in the process to move some stuff around
That's a quite an inappropriate timing. Look at this thread: people are looking for email alternatives. These are the moments when a business needs to step up and come up with flash solutions having the smell of spring flowers.
We used to run an email service but run into issues with Spamhaus LOL So we stopped it but it is on our roadmap - again. Maybe we will push it
This was our old introduction
Market it as spamhaus ignored
You can't imagine how many tickets and emails we had open with Spamhaus LUL
Hmmmm, I kind of disagree. I don't think I've had any deliverability issues to my mail servers ever. If anything, it's just spam that's an issue.
I manually manage
local_sender_blacklistthough, quite a few with wildcards. Currently I have 325 domains in there (and by far, the most significant was*.ruwhich at one point accounted for 90% of the spam I received, and I don't know anyone in Russia). I have 3 hosts inlocal_host_blacklist.The vast majority of spam is sent to my contracting business domain, simply because it's more publicly available I guess. It's also very easy to aggressively filter, so basically everything that's spam there, gets the domain added to my
local_sender_blacklist, and a few of these have started rotating their domain prefixes likeoutreach,outbound,msg,etc,data,chat,mail,contact,email,email1, ...) every time I block them, at which point I wildcard their domain as well. Quite a few companies seem happy to register variations on their main domain just to send the same junk spam a month later too.But, as for legitimate e-mail, I don't think any has not been delivered to me. The problem has always been outbound, and even then the worst that's happened was ending up in a spam folder rather than not delivered at all. As I said before, I don't e-mail a huge variety of domains though.
Plus personally, I love the flexibility of handling my own e-mail. For various reasons, I have a different POP3 box for every client, and most mail gets sent to multiple of these. The wildcard address just goes to one place or another, but then I whitelist mail from specific companies to go elsewhere, so for instance my phone when travelling only gets mails from companies I'm using while travelling. I prefer that way of working as for me it completely removes the anxiety about the possibility of losing my phone, as I know all my important mails and bank accounts have never gone anywhere near the phone, and similarly with my travelling laptop.
But then, I'm happy manually editing
aliases.virtualdirectly on the mail server every time before I'm about to use a new company that I know I'll want to access from the phone. I do also have a subdomain that wildcard forwards everything to my travel phone, and just use that if I need to sign up for anything while travelling, so that I can give it a unique address.People always want deals though. Don't bully them into expanding resources when they're not ready, as the demand you're promising may never even show up!
Do you run any stack or is it a fully manual installation?
In our 2 years we had only 1 or 2 deals, but not here.
I am sorry if that is how it was perceived. I did not mean to bully them. I simply provided a marketing perspective: one needs to come with solutions precisely when problems (or requests) arise. Don't let a good crisis go to waste — as an important man once said.
In all my years I have quietly watched @Francisco
Because I am surprised the way he acts and stands up his businesses. Some people may call it lazy. Some may call it unreliable. I look at and say “that’s exactly what I would do, and be polite and respectful in address my customers concern with humility because that’s what I owe them”.
A good business makes mistakes. A good business learns. A good business responds to all concerns with respect. I respect @Francisco way of running his business. It works.
Honestly big cloud providers have worse performance metrics with issues MONTHLY and I know this because I have over half a dozen enterprise emails in different orgs as an advisor. And honestly @Francisco outperforms them all just by being available. The others are not.
I bash many hosts here for how they treat customers but I have never had less than a good thing to observe from @NameCrane .
I recommend you re-evaluate.
I still believe the best and easiest solution for the mail is using a shared hosting account with a reputable provider.
Just plain exim4 and spamassassin (although that's not so useful nowadays since most of the blacklists stopped doing their thing).
I have a couple of local changes for DKIM, and another couple of local changes for spamassassin (as I run it on a separate VM) and outgoing SMTP authentication, but nothing significant.
Of course it's mostly outbound problem. But, some corporate have issue delivering to my own domain, then they asked me to change it to google, yahoo, hotmail, etc. What a hassle.
That's the same problem with paypal OTP (to lesser extent, certain banks' 3DS). Somehow they just can't deliver the second OTP if you had request one within 24 hours.
I guess they don't want to attract low end customers!
Yea, you might want to check with outlook, it land in Junk , Delivery is never the issue. Issue is landing in spam/junk folder.
Good ol Microshaft.
Which location is US1 and which is US2?
I use Zoho mail and zoho zeptomail for transactional mail
What are the shortcomings of each of those three?
How much in Play Store purchases can you possibly have accrued to make it worthwhile to continue paying Google Workspace's monthly pricing (per user)?
Doesn't Fastmail charge basically abide the the same pricing as Google Workspace?
They kinda flexible about it, I have micro-one but mail them I have around 40 mail need to sended per day (half was just git patch mail) they just said fine for it.
I kinda not recommended them if you send mail to M$ cause there some case mail would send to spam (its rarely case, but its still hard judge for me).
That's generally fine. Bulk is more so aimed at spammers and cold emailing.
We have plenty of people that use us for transactional emails and things like that.
And @MaxTakeba too.
Francisco