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The biggest problem with running your own hosted email server is that the giants (Google, Microsoft, Yahoo ...⁾ tend to block all the incoming mail.

Sometimes you can contact them and ask to be removed from whatever list or be allowed.

In my experience that lasts about a week, then blocks again.

I eventually gave up.

Tons of bots out there looking for SMTP serveres too, .



I've been hosting three servers for over a decade and only had that problem once for a month with Google about 6 years ago. As long as you setup SPF at a minimum you'll be fine


I run my own mail server and use postmark for delivery. It is really inexpensive, I don't need to rely on Gmail for anything, and after setup has required almost no interaction for 10+ years.




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