It's times like this that I wish HN had better moderation, you are insultingly rude to the parent and to one of my comments.
While setting up your own mail server is fun, rewarding, and pretty easy, there are serious problems that anyone considers it needs to be made aware of. Over any serious period of time, the odds that not all your mail is getting delivered approaches and equals 100%. It's a sad reality but a true one unfortunately. If you okay with the fact that some percentage of your email will never make it to your destination (and in many cases you won't know that's happening) then it might be for you. Most people are not okay with that for obvious reasons.
No, they are hand waving and being rude and insulting while delivering misinformation.
The cases where my email got blocked, I always received an email back from the box, so I think there are no cases where my email just disappeared into the dark. Reasons for blocking where: - Some strange spamlist blocked my IP. I was able to resolve this by filling out a i-am-not-a-spammer-form on the spamlist provider - Some email server required from me that I add my personal address to my website, so that they know who maintains the server
Never have I send an email but it was not delivered without notice
I have never been on a spam list. My IPs have never been on a blacklist. And yet, my mail was often delivered to spam folder (as opposed to inbox) on Outlook and Gmail.
> The cases where my email got blocked, I always received an email back from the box, so I think there are no cases where my email just disappeared into the dark.
In the vast majority of the cases where your email is not delivered to the inbox of the recipient, you will not get any notification. In these cases your mail will usually be silently placed into the spam folder, and sometimes it will be blackholed completely (not even landing in the spam folder).