How’s your self hosted email going? Any advice you can share to avoid some of the major issues?

@toxicmode @galoisghost I think those of us who can should selfhost an email address at least to contact other selfhosters even if we can't use it effectively to contact users of Big Email. That's how the network effect begins

Think of it like how a lot of the Fedi defederated from Gab or/and Thereads, except that this time it's Big email that's forcing the defederation

https://badrihippo.thekambattu.rocks/clog/staying-away-from-big-email/

@badrihippo Most ISP block outgoing emails, so it isn't really possible to selfhost email unless you pay for a special proxy-service. Personally I think email is a lost cause and we should just stop using it.

@kris @badrihippo citation needed for "most isps". none of the 3 fixed-line isps I have used have blocked port 25 (my mobile carrier, however, does). the main barrier to self-hosting emails is many residential ips being listed in dnsbls (but not all - mine aren't and would quite possibly have better deliverability than ovh, where I currently host my mail server), as well as many residential isps not letting you set rdns (again not all - my rdns is delegated to me)

@noisytoot @kris ah, we're talking about different degrees of selfhosting here. I was thinking of "rent a VPS and run your stuff on it"; actually physically hosting it would have a few more hurdles I suppose

I do want to do it someday (for other things, not email specifically) but I've been procrastinating on figuring out whether my ISP offers a static IP or even playing with DuckDNS like things for that matter. But that's getting to a different topic...