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Kévin lists at gph.dk
Fri Jan 8 19:36:17 GMT 2021
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8 janv. 2021 à 15:14 de anothersms at gmail.com:
Right now, it's quite the opposite. Google & Yahoo & Microsoft & co.
control the vast majority of email addresses. Also, they don't like
emails sent from dynamic ips. Try to setup a mail server nowadays. I
have, but my internet provider gives me a dynamic ip. Fine? Nope, my
mail is blocked by 90% of providers, even if my setup is correct and my
score on [1] is excellent, google refuses to accept my emails. So here
I am, sending a mail from a google account. Email was decentralized,
now it is not. But if you can prove me wrong (host a mail server with a
dynamic ip and being able to send emails to anybody) please do, I'd
really like to ditch google mail.
I used to run my own mail server* (the domain picked up in the following messages with listed domains - is mmn.name). My ISP issues static IPs but honestly, that doesn't change the arbitrary blocking from the big providers.
However, you can use a smarthost while still hosting your own server(s). Personally I use spamhero.com to manage in and outbound emails, and block off my mail server ports only to their IPs, it's a bit more expensive at 15$ a month.
If you just want SMTP relay, then duocircle (https://www.duocircle.com/email/outbound-smtp) is free for 1 000 messages a month or 4$ for 2 500. I've probably max sent 1 500 emails in a month at a peak, it's surprisingly hard.
There is, of course, your ISP's SMTP server, but that's a gamble, my ISP is geared towards advanced users hosting their own services so there isn't any weird restrictions on sender domains. Whereas other ISPs are more anti-that and will probably make every effort to ruin your life by blocking domains that are not their crap email domain.
It's kind of cheating the self hosted ethos, but it at least means you guarantee delivery.
= the server crashed for good and I was too lazy to fix it. I still kind of do as my BBS is up and running and does still have to send and receive internet email.-Kévin