From dd71f019de0314f7b3f2ae1e0aa920e49e9f2759 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Suleyman Farajli Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2025 18:37:57 +0400 Subject: refactor: everything chaged --- content/posts/selfhostmail.md | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/posts/selfhostmail.md (limited to 'content/posts/selfhostmail.md') diff --git a/content/posts/selfhostmail.md b/content/posts/selfhostmail.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f0469ef --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/selfhostmail.md @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +--- +title: "Hosting an email server is not possible." +slug: "hosting-email-server" +created: 2025-01-24 +description: "Explaining why don't host an email server." +tags: [Technology] +draft: false +--- + +### 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 + +#### - Not enough documentation is available and some is outdated.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there are so many commands involved in the process +even just a small update on one program can make the documentation outdated.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. -- cgit v1.2.3