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diff --git a/posts/selfhostmail.md b/posts/selfhostmail.md deleted file mode 100644 index 98285a4..0000000 --- a/posts/selfhostmail.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,48 +0,0 @@ -<!-- Title: Reasons not to host an email server --> - -### Reasons to not host your own email server. - -Last summer, I had successfully managed to host my email server but -a couple of days ago I completely removed everything from my server -and purchased an email hosting service. - -I'd like to share my experience with hosting an email server -and what makes the process an absolute nightmare. - -#### - It's hard to find an affordable VPS provider that doesn't block port 25. - -If you don't know anything about email, you need the port 25 to be open to send mails but -most server providers block it to reduce spam and the ones that don't costs more than -the usual ones. - -#### - Getting a domain and IP that is not blacklisted. - -If you have already bought a domain it might be blacklisted meaning that -all the mails you'll send is going to go right into the spam folder of the receiver. -It's the same for IP but chaining it is a lot easier than getting a new domain on most -server providers. - -#### - Not enough documentation is available and some is outdated. - -There isn't that much documentation for setting up an email server, I think that is -partially because of the process being so tough that no one really wants to document it -and there are so many commands involved in the process -even just a small update on one program can make the documentation outdated. - -#### - It's very hard to set up. -Configuring an email server was perhaps the hardest thing that I'd ever done -(even after finding the proper documentation), I spent weeks on that. - -#### - Almost certainly, your mails won't be delivered. - -Even after going through the very difficult process of finding the correct server provider, -documentation and setting everything up (DKIM, SPF etc.) you'll still end up in spams, -you might be able to pass spam filters of some email services, but you'll never feel -confident of sending mails because big email services sometimes update their spam filters -and you got to keep up with those as well, so it doesn't just end there when you set it up. - -#### Summing it up - -I'd gladly host an email server, but I just can't make it work half as good as the paid -email service providers. In the future I might try to do it again -(though I don't think the results will be different) but now I'll stick to email services. |