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Comment by greatjack613 | Hacker News Reader

I have had the exact opposite experience, I used mail in a box and set it up on digital ocean on a 5$ droplet.

Have not had any spam or blacklisting issues and it was super easy to setup.

Part of the problem is silent deliverability issues. You can send to someone @gmail.com that you've never messaged before and it won't get rejected. It will probably end up in their Junk folder. You don't know it, they don't know it, and unless they check, which many people don't, it will be as if you never sent it.

>You can send to someone @gmail.com that you've never messaged before and it won't get rejected. It will probably end up in their Junk folder.

That happens even if you send from @gmail to @gmail. Well, it happened to me not long ago.

But I've mostly been using lesser known email providers and I haven't noticed any problems.

I am somewhere in the middle. Have been running my personal mail server for 15y, it mostly works but my emails do get often flagged as spam by the major providers (but not deleted). Though those very same providers are themselves a major source of the spam I receive. Do as I say, not as I do.

The nice thing if you control your domain is to be able to create unique email aliases, which is a way to cut spam to zero. A company starts spamming or leaks your email address, just delete the alias.

Wanted to get my own email specifically for this. Is it possible on one of the serviced emails?

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