Apparently there's no support for smarthost / relayhost (or I can't find any traces of it in the documentation). Running your own low traffic mail exchanger without it is often not a pleasant experience.
Chasquid – SMTP server focused on simplicity
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Re: Chasquid – SMTP server focused on simplicity
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
GMX is banned in many places for example.
Re: Chasquid – SMTP server focused on simplicity
#13Earlier 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
I agree. Self hosted my email for over a decade and as long as you do the recommended SPF, DKIM and DMARC you have basically no problems.
Occasionally I turn up in spam when I email someone I haven't before, but that's usually due to the .ro in my domain and the forced text mode rather than html.
I've found problems only start occuring when you send transactional email. User signups, notifications, etc. Anything really automated.
I think people like to joke on self hosting email because there are a lot of moving parts and it was hard to diagnose why something went wrong. Until the last decade and early 2010s there were no all in one self hosted solutions that made it easy & available for most to do it.
Re: Chasquid – SMTP server focused on simplicity
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
I agree. Self hosted my email for over a decade and as long as you do the recommended SPF, DKIM and DMARC you have basically no problems. Occasionally I turn up in spam when I email someone I haven't before, but that's usually due to the .ro in my domain and the forced text mode rather than html. I've found problems only start occuring when you send transactional email. User signups, notifications, etc. Anything real…
> Occasionally I turn up in spam when I email someone I haven't before
Just proved my point.
Re: Chasquid – SMTP server focused on simplicity
#15Does anyone know of an SMTP server which is easily usable with Caddy? I find tinkering with certificates quite bothersome, and I won't give up Caddy as I already host a bunch of apps with it.
Re: Chasquid – SMTP server focused on simplicity
#16Earlier 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.
And thankfully the solution is almost always the same even after many years.
Re: Chasquid – SMTP server focused on simplicity
#17I'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.
To be fair, you can relay through those services to work around the delivery problem. It's still better than nothing since they now only see your outbound mail, but inbound mail processing & storage is still local & self-hosted.
Re: Chasquid – SMTP server focused on simplicity
#18Earlier 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
Wait until you get on MS blocklist with no recourse
Re: Chasquid – SMTP server focused on simplicity
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
Wait until you get on MS blocklist with no recourse
Or on any other RBL because someone else in the same netblock (maybe) did something suspicious.
Re: Chasquid – SMTP server focused on simplicity
#20I'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…
Quite frankly, it's just not worth the time or maintenance.