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I tried maybe 15 years ago and it went about as well as you'd expect for back then. But I'm starting to get the itch again.

Have any of you tried relatively recently? How impossible is it to get reliable deliverability to gmail and whatnot these days?

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[–] Eirikr70@jlai.lu 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I have been self-hosting my mail server for the past 5 or 6 years with success. Recently my ISP decided to close port 25 so I have to use a third party to deliver my outgoing mail.

[–] desentizised@lemmy.zip 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

The fact that ISPs can do this should be a fkn outrage. But this is so far removed from what people care about. And so net neutrality gets eroded.

[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think they want to bother with the administration, they were forced to to stop anyone from spamming from random SMTP servers.

Because of dmarc and DKIM, we don't really need this anymore, but there were good reasons for it.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 points 4 hours ago

I know some ISPs can enable it if you call them and ask them