Subj : Re: Moving my boards to the cloud
To   : Mandarax
From : Adept
Date : Mon Jan 09 2023 10:48:33

 Ma> matches my domain name settings for sending email out. If you want to be
 Ma> able to send emails out from a self hosted email server, you need to
 Ma> make sure not to get a VPS provider that has IP's blocked by gmail,
 Ma> hotmail, etc.  This can happen often to some of the big guys because of

I wound up going with mxroute.com for e-mail. They currently have a $200 lifetime deal, though I subscribed with a $60/2 years plan.

I figure having a provider that just provides e-mail should make them well-focused on providing e-mail. They have limits of no more than 300 e-mails per hour, so hopefully that means that the spammers stay away, and they can avoid being blacklisted.

I do occasionally have issues with my e-mails winding up in spam boxes, but that's because of a) sometimes using odd domain names, like .rocks, and b) using Eudora. Evidently something about using antique software makes providers trust it less.

But neither of those are provider issues.

On the other hand, I haven't even tried to set up e-mail from my BBS or other things that are hosted on other servers. Just personal e-mail, or e-mail for people I do the hosting for.

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