self hosting at home or self hosting on a 3rd party server? I'm also interested in going down this route.
How do you handle the fact that supposedly most large email corps mark your emails as spam?
How do you handle the fact that supposedly most large email corps mark your emails as spam?
I'm not currently getting blocked by Google or Microsoft, and maybe that's because it's hosted via my home connection (and therefore not within a set of known untrustworthy IP addresses), but Mailu has an easy path to ensuring SPF and DKIM are setup, which add legitimacy to the email domain.
I've been testing with a domain name that I haven't used for email before, so it's a clean slate, though I'm not sure how much difference that makes in getting blocked or not.
I've configured Postfix to use it for fallback if I can't deliver directly.
I use Digital Ocean and seem to struggle a bit delivering directly. 60 emails this month had to be delivered through mailgun since direct failed. Their free tier is up to 1250 emails per month.