Today I decided to get a custom domain for my email and honestly I think it's one of the best things I've done for my online privacy.
Here’s why.
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Even then, a lot of email is reputation based on ip blocks. You can have all of those things correct and still be sent to spam if you’re using a cloud provider or the like. If you want to avoid trying to get up reputation up, your best bet is to use a reputable mail sending system like resend or smtp2go
Yep, the big ones (MS, Google) don’t give a shit about your self hosted e-mail server and throw all of your mail to spam. They don’t do that with replies though.
You need a DMARC policy, and then dkim or and spf record set up. Without these a lot of email providers will just assume your emails are spam.
Even then, a lot of email is reputation based on ip blocks. You can have all of those things correct and still be sent to spam if you’re using a cloud provider or the like. If you want to avoid trying to get up reputation up, your best bet is to use a reputable mail sending system like resend or smtp2go
Yep, the big ones (MS, Google) don’t give a shit about your self hosted e-mail server and throw all of your mail to spam. They don’t do that with replies though.
Which makes sense. The communication was already established.
I wasn’t even thinking about self hosted email, but you’re right about that.