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All that "security" just to fight spam. IIRC it was estimated that globally spammers make $300M per year from their spam. It doesn't seem like much. Somebody joked that it would be better if we just paid them that much to do nothing.
For Poor country 300 million is a huge sum of money.
Besides the problems mentioned in this post the real problem I had was dealing with spam. The open source community around spam has really degraded over time, to the point where most solutions are extremely high maintenance and require regular tweaking. Methods that used to work, like greylisting, cause problems when dealing with GMail because google doesn't play nicely with it. The big spam blacklists have also gotten a bit less trustworthy over the years.
Then there is also mxroute.com, which is an indie email provider. He seems to do fine too. Didn't use them yet.
So I think having at least some sending volume is key to running an indie server. You can't do it just for a few mailboxes/users.
I still wouldn't recommend to learn or start with email in 2022. There are better uses of your time.
All that "security" just to fight spam. IIRC it was estimated that globally spammers make $300M per year from their spam. It doesn't seem like much. Somebody joked that it would be better if we just paid them that much to do nothing.
Gabe Newell once said that "Piracy is not a pricing issue. It's a service issue". I believe this has been proven by netflix/spotify as well.
Is spam just a symptom of a much deeper problem? If so what is it? Or is it naive to think of spam this way?
However I do think it’s a case of damned if you do damned if you don’t. As a consumer of big tech email I become equally frustrated when spam makes it past the filter and I expect them to do more.
If it’s easy for the average person to setup a mail sever with high reputation then it’s easy for spammers to do the same. I can’t think of a great way to manage this at scale for the average person using a $5 a month Digital Ocean VPS sending One thing I have noticed is that there’s still a load of large organisations failing to implement basic deliverability best practices like SPF records. These organisations have themselves to blame.
I have had the exact opposite experience, I used mail in a box and set it up on digital ocean on a 5$ droplet. Have not had any spam or blacklisting issues and it was super easy to setup.
The nice thing if you control your domain is to be able to create unique email aliases, which is a way to cut spam to zero. A company starts spamming or leaks your email address, just delete the alias.
> At some point your IP range is bound to be banned, either by one asshole IP neighbor sending spam, *one of your users being pwned*,
feels like a hint that
> My current email server IP has been managed by me and used exclusively for personal email with zero spam, zero, for the last ten years.
Might not be entirely accurate.