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On Mon, 5 Jul 2021 09:23:03 -0400
Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> wrote:


> 
> I was thinking that maybe I should start thinking about hosting my own
> email server. But I wasn't sure if I felt like I had the nerve to do
> so. Some people say it's a lot of maintenance work.
> 

No, it's not a big deal. The only maintenance I do is to try to improve
my anti-spam measures, and that's probably less than half an hour per
year. *After* the mail server was set up and running properly, of
course, and even that doesn't take much work.

*If* you have a static IP address and your ISP is willing to keep the
CIDR block containing it off of blacklists (some ISPs don't care). It
can allegedly be done with a dynamic address, but you not only have to
keep the MX->A record updated, but also the PTR. You may not even have
control of the PTR on a dynamic address. It's more to go wrong, and
there is a chance of delayed mail whenever the address changes. Also,
some mail servers try to identify dynamic addresses and reject SMTP
connections from them. 

If you have a dynamic address, the only safe way is to send through a
smarthost with a good reputation, and many ISPs do not provide them
now. Also, you lose logging of sent mail, which is one of the reasons
for doing it yourself.

-- 
Joe

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MTA Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-07-05 15:30 +0200
  Re: MTA Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-07-05 15:40 +0200
    Re: MTA Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2021-07-05 16:00 +0200
      Re: MTA Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-07-05 16:10 +0200
        Re: MTA Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-07-05 16:30 +0200
          Re: MTA Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2021-07-05 17:10 +0200
          Re: MTA John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2021-07-05 17:20 +0200
        Re: MTA Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2021-07-05 16:50 +0200
          Re: MTA Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2021-07-05 22:40 +0200
    Re: MTA Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-07-05 16:00 +0200
      Re: MTA Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2021-07-05 16:00 +0200
        Re: MTA (corrected) Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-07-05 16:40 +0200
          Re: MTA (corrected) Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2021-07-05 17:10 +0200
            Re: MTA (corrected) Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-07-05 17:50 +0200
            Re: MTA (corrected) Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2021-07-05 22:20 +0200
              Re: MTA (corrected) Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2021-07-06 12:00 +0200
          Re: MTA (corrected) Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-07-05 18:50 +0200
            Re: MTA (corrected) Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-07-05 19:10 +0200
              Re: MTA (corrected) Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-07-05 19:20 +0200
                Re: MTA (corrected) Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-07-09 22:20 +0200
            Re: MTA (corrected) Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-07-05 19:10 +0200
    Re: MTA Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2021-07-05 22:10 +0200
  Re: MTA Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2021-07-05 22:30 +0200

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