After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won.
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@MooCloud_Matt said in After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won.:
@necrevistonnezr said in After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won.:
email gateway
That's is actually the only good way to do it in scale, having to manage and monitor just 3 IP is easier and that's how we do it, even if every customer have a dedicated Cloudron the all share 3 outgoing ip, this allow us to keep them monitored and the karma value will ne restored faster because of the amount of email you send.
If 1 mail over 5 in a day is recognize as spam, you will get blacklisted or grey listed sooner then if 10 mail over 1000 mail get recognize as spam.
And you will recover sooner.What often happened is that we have contacted blacklist and some of them have automatic mail to notify us of an abuse before listing us, this because we have proof that we have an antispam check got out going mail.
Obviously the biggest issue we have is Gmail that don't work with anybody and don't publish anything about there antispam.
So you never know if you are blacklisted or not.If you suspect your IP address might be blacklisted for spam, what would be a good way to check? What would be a good way to recover the situation?
@LoudLemur
We pay a good amount of money for a service that checks our IPs and helps us intervene in those cases.
But for gmail, we just have some backup IP to use for all the outbound mail that goes to google, we have invested some time to develop the ability to select the origin IP to use based on the destination mail server.That's the point I think, self-host is good for a private, or max a small SMB, but not for a customer that needs mail to work to make money.
The investment that MooCloud has to do, to be in line (I'm not even trying to say "better") with the standard is pretty big, and can only be sustainable if you have customer to payit. -
@MooCloud_Matt said in After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won.:
@necrevistonnezr said in After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won.:
email gateway
That's is actually the only good way to do it in scale, having to manage and monitor just 3 IP is easier and that's how we do it, even if every customer have a dedicated Cloudron the all share 3 outgoing ip, this allow us to keep them monitored and the karma value will ne restored faster because of the amount of email you send.
If 1 mail over 5 in a day is recognize as spam, you will get blacklisted or grey listed sooner then if 10 mail over 1000 mail get recognize as spam.
And you will recover sooner.What often happened is that we have contacted blacklist and some of them have automatic mail to notify us of an abuse before listing us, this because we have proof that we have an antispam check got out going mail.
Obviously the biggest issue we have is Gmail that don't work with anybody and don't publish anything about there antispam.
So you never know if you are blacklisted or not.If you suspect your IP address might be blacklisted for spam, what would be a good way to check? What would be a good way to recover the situation?
@LoudLemur https://mxtoolbox.com/ and https://www.warmupinbox.com/ can help.
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@LoudLemur https://mxtoolbox.com/ and https://www.warmupinbox.com/ can help.
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Exactly you need to use external solution to solve those issues, and then is not self hosted 100%, MX toolbox is really simple, it doesn't manage abuse report to your IPs or dmarc.(update me if something changed lately on that). -
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Exactly you need to use external solution to solve those issues, and then is not self hosted 100%, MX toolbox is really simple, it doesn't manage abuse report to your IPs or dmarc.(update me if something changed lately on that).Thanks to the people here, this thread has become very interesting. It makes Zme wonder what Free Software tools are available now and best placed to be able to replace email. This change of direction might be worth a new thread of its own.
Zeronet have ZeroMail. I have used it a little bit and it worked, but only for very light use. I think something that does not require a centralized authority issuing the address is the way forward.
Messaging on Session using Lokinet might be the way forward, but it is very niche now, and a long way from corporate use...
Any ideas?
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@necrevistonnezr said in After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won.:
@humptydumpty said in After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won.:
@scooke most home IP’s are dynamic so that’s another issue to worry about. A dedicated IP costs more than a VPS (my residential ISP wants $15/mo). Self hosting at home doesn’t make sense financially.
Well, I host Cloudron in my home office with dynamic IPs on a NUC. Outbound email gateway is my very privacy conscious mail provider mailbox.org. For a small family, that’s more than sufficient.
This is the coolest way to run Cloudron, the way that, I think, could bring Cloudron to the masses.
If you ever have time and the inclination and could create some sort of "how-to" video explaining how to solve the tricky parts of accomplishing your setup, I think that could be massive for Cloudron. @girish @nebulon what do you think?
@LoudLemur said in After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won.:
@necrevistonnezr said in After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won.:
@humptydumpty said in After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won.:
Well, I host Cloudron in my home office with dynamic IPs on a NUC. Outbound email gateway is my very privacy conscious mail provider mailbox.org. For a small family, that’s more than sufficient.
This is the coolest way to run Cloudron, the way that, I think, could bring Cloudron to the masses.
If you ever have time and the inclination and could create some sort of "how-to" video explaining how to solve the tricky parts of accomplishing your setup, I think that could be massive for Cloudron. @girish @nebulon what do you think?
The cool thing: it’s all already building into cloudron! Dynamic IPs DNS (in the network settings) and support for email gateways.
The only thing you have to do on your side is to report your current IP regularly to the domain provider. This happens via ddclient, most commercial routers have a similar function build-in.
