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Chasquid – SMTP server focused on simplicity

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Re: Chasquid – SMTP server focused on simplicity

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I'm a huge fan of Chasquid. The HAProxy protocol support makes it easy to integrate in Kubernetes.

I uses to use this solution until a few months ago when I decided that self hosting my mail server was too much work. To be fair, it's not Chasquid's fault as operations there are basically 0, but more of a spam / email reputation thing.

Re: Chasquid – SMTP server focused on simplicity

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I'm a huge fan of Chasquid. The HAProxy protocol support makes it easy to integrate in Kubernetes. I uses to use this solution until a few months ago when I decided that self hosting my mail server was too much work. To be fair, it's not Chasquid's fault as operations there are basically 0, but more of a spam / email reputation thing.

Self-hosting email has been essentially dead for almost a decade.

Even if you don't ever SPAM and send like one email a day on average, you won't be able to get them delivered to the recipient's inbox.

You can use SPF, DKIM, DMARC all you want, google won't care.

Re: Chasquid – SMTP server focused on simplicity

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post #3

I'm a huge fan of Chasquid. The HAProxy protocol support makes it easy to integrate in Kubernetes. I uses to use this solution until a few months ago when I decided that self hosting my mail server was too much work. To be fair, it's not Chasquid's fault as operations there are basically 0, but more of a spam / email reputation thing.

Self-hosting email has been essentially dead for almost a decade. Even if you don't ever SPAM and send like one email a day on average, you won't be able to get them delivered to the recipient's inbox. You can use SPF, DKIM, DMARC all you want, google won't care.

can't confirm. I'm hosting a online registration software for parent-teacher conferences and hosting all my mailservers on my business internet line.

If you have DKIM,DMARC,SPF and the reverse DNS of the mailserver is set to the correct domain you have no problem. Well.. except for GMX and yahoo which frequently block me for a few hours when multiple parents register at the same time

Re: Chasquid – SMTP server focused on simplicity

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post #3

I'm a huge fan of Chasquid. The HAProxy protocol support makes it easy to integrate in Kubernetes. I uses to use this solution until a few months ago when I decided that self hosting my mail server was too much work. To be fair, it's not Chasquid's fault as operations there are basically 0, but more of a spam / email reputation thing.

Self-hosting email has been essentially dead for almost a decade. Even if you don't ever SPAM and send like one email a day on average, you won't be able to get them delivered to the recipient's inbox. You can use SPF, DKIM, DMARC all you want, google won't care.

Looking for help with Postfix configuration usually put you in forums threads with almost +10 years.

Re: Chasquid – SMTP server focused on simplicity

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Self-hosting email has been essentially dead for almost a decade. Even if you don't ever SPAM and send like one email a day on average, you won't be able to get them delivered to the recipient's inbox. You can use SPF, DKIM, DMARC all you want, google won't care.

can't confirm. I'm hosting a online registration software for parent-teacher conferences and hosting all my mailservers on my business internet line. If you have DKIM,DMARC,SPF and the reverse DNS of the mailserver is set to the correct domain you have no problem. Well.. except for GMX and yahoo which frequently block me for a few hours when multiple parents register at the same time

The security solutions on the mail system make a line that you need to cross, but it doesn’t guarantee a success.

It’s a hard way to guess how good is the implementation on the receiver, like GMX, Libero or other big country providers with “historical” service that don’t care about them too much.

Re: Chasquid – SMTP server focused on simplicity

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Self-hosting email has been essentially dead for almost a decade. Even if you don't ever SPAM and send like one email a day on average, you won't be able to get them delivered to the recipient's inbox. You can use SPF, DKIM, DMARC all you want, google won't care.

Looking for help with Postfix configuration usually put you in forums threads with almost +10 years.

postfix-users is active, and primary devs very frequently answer user questions (you should make an effort to go through the documentation first).

https://www.postfix.org/lists.html

To get an idea without subscribing:

https://www.mail-archive.com/postfix-users@postfix.org/

Re: Chasquid – SMTP server focused on simplicity

#8
I'm amazed at how email server software is innovating and evolving like never before. We have new implementations of SMTP, IMAP, etc. We even have new protocols like JMAP thanks to the Fastmail guys.

But it also feels like fewer and fewer people are running their own mail servers. Everyone seems to just outsource it to Google or Microsoft. I'm also surprised at how many engineers barely understand how email works. (IE: I have to show them what email headers are and the useful info that can ne found there.)

Re: Chasquid – SMTP server focused on simplicity

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Self-hosting email has been essentially dead for almost a decade. Even if you don't ever SPAM and send like one email a day on average, you won't be able to get them delivered to the recipient's inbox. You can use SPF, DKIM, DMARC all you want, google won't care.

can't confirm. I'm hosting a online registration software for parent-teacher conferences and hosting all my mailservers on my business internet line. If you have DKIM,DMARC,SPF and the reverse DNS of the mailserver is set to the correct domain you have no problem. Well.. except for GMX and yahoo which frequently block me for a few hours when multiple parents register at the same time

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Re: Chasquid – SMTP server focused on simplicity

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post #8

I'm amazed at how email server software is innovating and evolving like never before. We have new implementations of SMTP, IMAP, etc. We even have new protocols like JMAP thanks to the Fastmail guys. But it also feels like fewer and fewer people are running their own mail servers. Everyone seems to just outsource it to Google or Microsoft. I'm also surprised at how many engineers barely understand how email works. (I…

That's because email delivery is such a weird dance. It's getting harder every year to have your mail delivered without being part of those few services since the protocol is abused so much.
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