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I still want to host my own incoming mail server for my domains but because sending is becoming harder and harder, can anyone recommend a service where I can relay my outgoing to mail to?

Some cloud providers now even block port 25 outgoing so you can't even send mail out directly anymore.

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How many email boxes do you have, and what's your value of your time, and your value of money, and whats your personal privacy policy? Because Gmail will let you send mail via their SMTP server if you want to send as someone you're authorized to send as, if that's compatible with your privacy policy. If you value your time, then MailChimp or something similar like MailerLite work, but cost money. If you don't mind paying some money but more importantly, can spend a lot of time setting it up manually (including warming up an IP), then you can setup AWS SQS/SNS + Lambda to send email. That's a bunch of work if you're not getting paid for it though.

gmail's what I ended up doing. The email still presents as coming from my domain, replies go back to it, and I could switch out for another relay any time, so it's good enough.

There are not that many relay servers. I had better luck with using an external SMTP server and adding the SPF and DKIM appropriate records to my dns. Personally I use postmarkapp with credits, but my second choice was SMTP2GO which has a free tier.

You can use Sendgrid as a SMTP relay host. You can even buy reserved IP addresses for that to segment your traffic.

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