Subj : Rolling your own email on linux in 2026
To   : Andriy Dzedolik
From : Jean-Jack Riethoven
Date : Fri Sep 11 2026 09:26 am


Hello Andriy!

11 Sep 26 02:01, you wrote to me:

 JR>> good thing to have, though... I had to use a 'professional'
 JR>> provider in a handful of cases in the last 15 years or so that
 JR>> wouldn't accept my home email.
 AD> Apple's icloud/me.com? I gave up trying to whitelist my VPS IP with
 AD> thier IPBL provider ...

Mostly very different institutions, mostly government or working-for-government 
adjacent (blocking residential IPs it seems). Recently, I noticed my employer 
using Proofpoint, so that indeed blocks my Hetzner VPS IP now... withing 
seemingly no way to get it whitelisted (several requests).

Jean-Jack


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