On 23Oct21 09:55-0400, Ofer Inbar wrote: > I run postfix on a cheap cloud-hosted linux instance. That does mean > I sometimes have to deal with deliverability issues which can be annoying. > However, I've searched for a more fully managed email hosting service > that would let me see my logs, including logs of attempts to connect > to deliver to my domain(s), and I don't think such a thing exists. > I value the ability to tail -f my mail server logs enough to make it > worth it to me to run my own server.
Same/similar here. The biggest issue for me was when the big players demanded SPF and DKIM. That was around 6-8 yrs ago if I'm not mistaken. There are tools on the net which can verify your setup, e.g. mailtester [0]. That was very helpful at that time. Other than that, I never had troubles [1]. Outgoing mails mostly end up in graylisting, but that's acceptable. The stack I use is exim, spamassassin, dovecot on debian stable since ~2006. In addition to the reasons above, I also learned a lot about how email works and I was able to tweak exim config in a way which is only possible on a self hosted system. 0: https://www.mail-tester.com 1: My VM got hacked just after I started it due to a vulnerability in exim. Lesson learned: Read debian-security mailing list and keep system updated! But I was still young and re-installed everything. -- Bastian
