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Unrelated but: what VPS hosts are reliable for email? I've had trouble with Linode being blocked in the past. I'm aware Google Cloud blocks port 25. I haven't tried EC2 but I assume the worst.
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Your mail will go to Spam too with Maddy, this is not about the MTA.
One "weird trick" I discovered with deliverability was that plaintext email from my server was rejected, but HTML email from it was accepted. For anyone with deliverability issues and mail going to spam, it might be worth trying this out (after you have sorted all the usual points like DKIM, SPF, PTR record etc.) - this obviously only helps if your IP is clean. I was surprised though, and only discovered it by accide…
Are you sure there is not some sort of parasitic Bayes filtering happening here?
I've been using Maddy now for about a month for my email, and it's incredible. The dev says it's not caddy for email – but in my experience, it's certainly been that easy. I've got to write a longer article about this, but self-hosting email is incredibly liberating. I now own my entire digital identity. I can work on open source projects with developers around the world completely while relying only on my own capabi…
Is there some sort of web interface for self-hosted e-mail that is reasonably good and sleek/modern-looking like Gmail, and also works well on mobile with swipe gestures and everything?
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One "weird trick" I discovered with deliverability was that plaintext email from my server was rejected, but HTML email from it was accepted. For anyone with deliverability issues and mail going to spam, it might be worth trying this out (after you have sorted all the usual points like DKIM, SPF, PTR record etc.) - this obviously only helps if your IP is clean. I was surprised though, and only discovered it by accide…
That's odd. I know that Spamassassin actually penalizes HTML and HTML only email. Are you sure there is not some sort of parasitic Bayes filtering happening here?
I never found much by way of technical detail on 365 deliverability, beyond the usual DKIM/SPF/DMARC/PTR record guidance, and forms for getting yourself removed from the whitelist.
What's especially strange is that this issue applied even when sending mail as a 365 subscriber. Once there was HTML content present in the email, deliverability (to other separate 365 tenants) improved!
Very odd...
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Mail is one of the easier things to backup IMO. It's just a directory if you use Maildir. Just tar it up with other important stuff on your filesystem you probably also want to save. No need for fancy "streaming SQLite replication."
I recall Litestream citing a ~3s streaming replication lag. What replication lag could tar-on-a-cronjob reasonably achieve for a moderate 5GB mail store? Even tar'ing isn't trivial: I've seen casing of people having missed preserving file permissions, making restoration difficult.
But if I was setting up something new, I'd definitely use one.
I've been using simple mail forwarder ( https://github.com/huan/docker-simple-mail-forwarder ) for a while now to catch-all and forward any email to my domain to my personal email on protonmail. Advantages are that I can move to another email provider without much hassle, and that I can have a different email address for any service I sign up for. The main disadvantage is that I can't make it look like I am replying…
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