Lennart HengstmengelJan 6

Question for people who self host their mail infra: do you do everything yourself, including relaying mail from your own ip, or do you use a smarthost/relay service? If so, which one?

ATM I use a relay service provided by my vps provider. Tried sending mails directly but then some mails are being flagged as spam or dropped. I want to move my vpses to another provider who does not have a relay service so might need a 3rd party solution.

#selfhosting #smtp #mail #relay #mailrelay #vps

Show threadChristianJan 6
@lhengstmengel
Doing everything by myself.
Important to get a "clean" ip, or to clean it before using it (e.g., removing from blacklists). Then proper spam configuration rDNS, SPF, DMARC etc is important. Lastly specifics for big tech companies are needed, e.g., google postmaster configs.
Show threadDerick Rethans
@chris42 @lhengstmengel Same here, although I probably could do with a fresher of what the Google people now started requiring extra for normal mail.
Jan 6 at 11:01amWeb
Show threadChristianJan 6
@derickr @lhengstmengel
Google normally needs site/domain verification in the postmaster tools. I did it via a DNS record years back and had no issues with being sorted into spam since then.