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Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your own-domain email?

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Post by chrisked »

rjst01 wrote: post #16
chrisked wrote: post #11

FastMail is absolutely flawless. Their feature improvements are always on point as well.

I love Fastmail for my personal email but the spam filtering leaves a lot to be desired. For my startup we tried to use it but had to move because of deliverability issues.

Agree that spam filtering out of the box could be improved. If you want advanced control then write a SIEVE script https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360060591373-How...

Deliverability issue are foreign to me. Never had an issue in over a decade. Did you configure everything properly? Also, ask their support about this with a concrete example. They’re very helpful.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your own-domain email?

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Post by montjoy »

calamari4065 wrote: post #19

I've been running my own mail server for 10 years. It fought me for nearly a year before I got it configured correctly, but since then I haven't had to do anything other than updates. Works great, no delivery issues and no spam to speak of. I'd love to recommend running your own server, but I really don't. It's terrible and you'll hate it. Also don't run your own server and let your boy/girlfriend to use it as their…

I used to do this, but then I had to move and I moved my domain to Gmail “temporarily” so I could still get email while waiting for my isp at the new location. Short story is that I don’t miss the cognitive overhead and I’m still on Gmail.

How do you manage filtering spam?

Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your own-domain email?

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Post by wodenokoto »

rjst01 wrote: post #16
chrisked wrote: post #11

FastMail is absolutely flawless. Their feature improvements are always on point as well.

I love Fastmail for my personal email but the spam filtering leaves a lot to be desired. For my startup we tried to use it but had to move because of deliverability issues.

Huh, moving from gmail to Fastmail one of my pleasant surprises was how much better spam filtering works.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your own-domain email?

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Post by calamari4065 »

montjoy wrote: post #23
calamari4065 wrote: post #19

I've been running my own mail server for 10 years. It fought me for nearly a year before I got it configured correctly, but since then I haven't had to do anything other than updates. Works great, no delivery issues and no spam to speak of. I'd love to recommend running your own server, but I really don't. It's terrible and you'll hate it. Also don't run your own server and let your boy/girlfriend to use it as their…

I used to do this, but then I had to move and I moved my domain to Gmail “temporarily” so I could still get email while waiting for my isp at the new location. Short story is that I don’t miss the cognitive overhead and I’m still on Gmail. How do you manage filtering spam?

Honestly, spam hasn't been much of a problem. Though I think it's more due to email hygiene than anything else. I use a random email for skectchy sites and have all emails to unregistered addresses drop into a folder in my personal account.

That traps pretty much everything other than the typical newsletter spam and recruitment emails.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your own-domain email?

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Post by herz0g »

I also self hosted my own email server but to be honest, even if you setup the server correctly and even if DNS and anything else is configured properly, some big player will reject your mails and you will have struggle to get your mails out of the spam for bigger companies. That takes even harder in place when you rent a new server with a maybe abused IP address. I switched some years ago for all work related stuff to a hosted exchange from Microsoft and pay around 5$ per month for one tenant. I never had problems with my mails being rejected or forwarded to spam anymore.

For sure you can host your own mail server and you can make it run with the most providers out there but you will always have some mailboxes you will not able to get your mails out of spam when you are a small player with a single mailserver.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your own-domain email?

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Post by protonmail »

drakonka wrote: post #4

I've been using Proton for a few years with my custom domains; no complaints so far. Edit: Actually, when writing this I only had the web version in mind. I do have complaints about the Android app. It sometimes does not send an email and if you press the Send button again (because of no feedback/no idea if it's sending or not), it sometimes sends an _incomplete_ email. Which is actually a really big problem - I'm ju…

Thank you for sharing this. The Android app issues you are mentioning have been addressed in the new beta version, which you can download on Google Play Store. We plan to fully release it as soon as it's ready.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your own-domain email?

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Post by protonmail »

gtirloni wrote: post #6
drakonka wrote: post #4

I've been using Proton for a few years with my custom domains; no complaints so far. Edit: Actually, when writing this I only had the web version in mind. I do have complaints about the Android app. It sometimes does not send an email and if you press the Send button again (because of no feedback/no idea if it's sending or not), it sometimes sends an _incomplete_ email. Which is actually a really big problem - I'm ju…

I tried it for many months but their web UI is super slow.

That doesn't sound right at all. Please report this to us at: https://proton.me/support/contact so we can look into it closely.
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