Recently, I’ve been learning more about this subject. Today I came across the Decentralization Scoring System and it slapped me across the face.
Recently, I’ve been learning more about this subject. Today I came across the Decentralization Scoring System and it slapped me across the face.
Everyone that thinks self hosting E-Mail is easy, I urge you to run your own mailserver and see how many mails actually reach their targets.
Your mailserver won’t be trusted by anyone, which makes your email always be delivered as spam, if they don’t get blocked outright.
Otherwise this scoring system seems to be quite alright. Even though it could use some more detail and citing some sources for the numbers would be great.
Nobody thinks self hosting email is easy. Wtf.
Self hosting emails is a pain, but I’ve been doing it for almost 2 years and I do not have any of these issues. I’m not an expert either, I just thoroughly followed a tutorial to properly configure dmarc, dkim and everything else and everything just works (I just hope I’m not jinxing it by writing this :D )
How many users are you supporting? And how frequently do they complain about spam, delivery issues, and that sending that last email with a 5G attachment keeps failing…
Glad it worked out for you!
But it’s definitely one of the deadly sins of selfhosting.
I’ve been self hosting my email for a long time, but I use an outbound SMTP relay so I don’t have to deal with IP reputation. The more interesting part to self-host is the receiving part, not the sending part.