<story><title>Mail-in-a-Box: a mail server in a box</title><url>https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abdullahkhalids</author><text>I have been running mailinabox with a hetzner server for 2-3 years now.&lt;p&gt;- Setup was largely painless. Main problem was making sure dns settings at my domain registrar were correct.&lt;p&gt;- Almost zero problems with mail delivery on the big providers [1]. Last time my email was dropped was by amd.com.&lt;p&gt;- Last year had to do a major version upgrade to mailinabox and it was a huge hassle. I think they need to improve on this. Rolling updates are painless.&lt;p&gt;Here is my advice to people who are on the threshold of wanting to host their own email, but are unsure because of mail delivery issues. Well, there are zero problems with incoming mail. So setup mailinabox and use that email to register for websites [2]. Use it for all your mailing lists etc.&lt;p&gt;Do it for a few years and see how it feels. Occasionally send out email. If enough people do it, then over time it will become easier for more people to host their own email.&lt;p&gt;[1] I have a theory that I deployed. I asked a whole bunch of people with gmail&amp;#x2F;hotmail email addresses to send me emails first on my new email. I then replied to them. I think this ensured that from that start I was put on the good lists.&lt;p&gt;[2] Use websitename@yourdomain.come to register. Easy to block spam this way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jimmaswell</author><text>It was flat out impossible for me to get Outlook to accept my mail server. They&amp;#x27;d only give me some vague response with no actionable steps to resolve it. I gave up and used a gmail account to route everything outgoing. That way mail still shows up as from:jimm@jimm.horse but rides on Google&amp;#x27;s reputation. Defeats the purpose a little but there&amp;#x27;s nothing more I can do (apparently unless I buy my own non residential ISP line, host the server in my house, and build reputatiom forever, but that&amp;#x27;s an absurd length to have to go through. ideally we&amp;#x27;d have antitrust legislation forcing MS et al to be fair towards smaller email and save the open internet overall, but I&amp;#x27;m not holding my breath.).&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=35691618&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=35691618&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Mail-in-a-Box: a mail server in a box</title><url>https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abdullahkhalids</author><text>I have been running mailinabox with a hetzner server for 2-3 years now.&lt;p&gt;- Setup was largely painless. Main problem was making sure dns settings at my domain registrar were correct.&lt;p&gt;- Almost zero problems with mail delivery on the big providers [1]. Last time my email was dropped was by amd.com.&lt;p&gt;- Last year had to do a major version upgrade to mailinabox and it was a huge hassle. I think they need to improve on this. Rolling updates are painless.&lt;p&gt;Here is my advice to people who are on the threshold of wanting to host their own email, but are unsure because of mail delivery issues. Well, there are zero problems with incoming mail. So setup mailinabox and use that email to register for websites [2]. Use it for all your mailing lists etc.&lt;p&gt;Do it for a few years and see how it feels. Occasionally send out email. If enough people do it, then over time it will become easier for more people to host their own email.&lt;p&gt;[1] I have a theory that I deployed. I asked a whole bunch of people with gmail&amp;#x2F;hotmail email addresses to send me emails first on my new email. I then replied to them. I think this ensured that from that start I was put on the good lists.&lt;p&gt;[2] Use websitename@yourdomain.come to register. Easy to block spam this way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Arnavion</author><text>&amp;gt;Last time my email was dropped was by amd.com.&lt;p&gt;They have something weird going on. I had to make an account with them to redeem a game key, and they wouldn&amp;#x27;t deliver the account verification email to my custom domain hosted by Fastmail. I used a gmail address and the email came instantly. Then out of the blue 24h later the emails to my custom domain were delivered (by which time the verification codes had all expired, of course).&lt;p&gt;I saw a bunch of discussion where other people reported the same thing like &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;old.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;AMDHelp&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;yr9tqq&amp;#x2F;amd_rewards_activation_not_working&amp;#x2F;k555hh7&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;old.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;AMDHelp&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;yr9tqq&amp;#x2F;amd_rewards...&lt;/a&gt; - they got emails instantly when they switched to gmail but other domains didn&amp;#x27;t work.</text></comment>