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Seems to have been some auto-moderation mistake. I emailed hn@ycombinator.com (from my self-hosted mail server) and they restored my comments.

You’d be surprised how many corporations send their own emails directly or use one of the smaller providers. I’ve checked the headers, and the majority of my utility bills, purchas…

To be clear, you’re talking about an outgoing mail server. An incoming mail server is pretty trivial to self-host and provides most of the benefits of self-hosting mail. The distin…

Using a cloud provider with your own domain means going through a lot of the “hard” parts, yes (setting DNS records for DMARC/DKIM/SPF/MX mostly). But self hosting does provide ben…

A lot of the people who complain that their emails were treated as spam when they tried self-hosting leave out that they were really sending unsolicited commercial mail. For person…

Have fun waiting. My domain registration doesn’t expire for ten years, and every year I top up the registration to ten years again.