On Mon, 5 Jul 2021 09:23:03 -0400 Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <deb...@polynamaude.com> wrote:
> > I was thinking that maybe I should start thinking about hosting my own > email server. But I wasn't sure if I felt like I had the nerve to do > so. Some people say it's a lot of maintenance work. > No, it's not a big deal. The only maintenance I do is to try to improve my anti-spam measures, and that's probably less than half an hour per year. *After* the mail server was set up and running properly, of course, and even that doesn't take much work. *If* you have a static IP address and your ISP is willing to keep the CIDR block containing it off of blacklists (some ISPs don't care). It can allegedly be done with a dynamic address, but you not only have to keep the MX->A record updated, but also the PTR. You may not even have control of the PTR on a dynamic address. It's more to go wrong, and there is a chance of delayed mail whenever the address changes. Also, some mail servers try to identify dynamic addresses and reject SMTP connections from them. If you have a dynamic address, the only safe way is to send through a smarthost with a good reputation, and many ISPs do not provide them now. Also, you lose logging of sent mail, which is one of the reasons for doing it yourself. -- Joe
