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Exactly this. I enjoyed the technical aspects of running my own mail server. I hated having to constantly manage black lists and dealing with "postmasters" to get my email to be consistently delivered. Some spammer manages to hack a server on the same IP block as you equals trouble for months. I just couldn't justify the time spent and the non-delivery any longer.

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Even google is aggressive about IP bans on other services.

There was a time my home IP on Comcast was on some blacklist with good. Every video was run through captcha. Searches too.

Comcast was useless to give me an IP in a new block.

What solved it? I signed up for gsuite free at the time and moved my email (from a colo) from “on prem” to them. Suddenly my home IP that’s used to access their services is cherry and no longer suspicious.

Note: that doesn’t seem to work anymore though. I regularly proxy some traffic through a linode and google does the same thing. Everything behind a captcha that’s stupid difficult to clearly 60% of the time. I hate traffic lights.

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