I finally gave up and switched entirely over to Fastmail awhile back. No more delivery problems, but no more self-hosting my own e-mail, something I'd done for twenty years prior (my domain is older than Mozilla and Google).
Can anyone speak to what a provider like Fastmail does behind the scenes that guarantees their delivery? Is it the threat to sue/kick up dirt/raise issues with the appropriate regulatory body if perfectly good emails don't go through? Merely having a seat at some sort of regulatory body or committee?
I'm self-hosting my mails. Microsoft expects you to send enough mails to consider your mails not as spam. One thing Fastmail does that people who self-host can't is: sending enough mails.
I don't know what other measure they may take but this alone probably goes a long way.
And yes, this is fucking frustrating. I'm not going to send thousands of mails per months just for the sake of it and don't know how I should do that without spamming. This is so fucked up.
This is definitely something I've never heard of, thanks for mentioning it -- I had no idea there was such a consideration (or even that it would be a good way to filter out scammers)
From what I can tell, there are two main reasons companies like Fastmail don't have these problems. The first is that good email providers spend a lot of time maintaining the reputation of the IP addresses they use and shut down bad actors as quickly as possible. The second is that the more people that use the service, the higher percentage of good quality emails being sent, reducing the effect of the occasional bad actor.
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Can anyone speak to what a provider like Fastmail does behind the scenes that guarantees their delivery? Is it the threat to sue/kick up dirt/raise issues with the appropriate regulatory body if perfectly good emails don't go through? Merely having a seat at some sort of regulatory body or committee?
I'm self-hosting my mails. Microsoft expects you to send enough mails to consider your mails not as spam. One thing Fastmail does that people who self-host can't is: sending enough mails.
I don't know what other measure they may take but this alone probably goes a long way.
And yes, this is fucking frustrating. I'm not going to send thousands of mails per months just for the sake of it and don't know how I should do that without spamming. This is so fucked up.
This is definitely something I've never heard of, thanks for mentioning it -- I had no idea there was such a consideration (or even that it would be a good way to filter out scammers)
From what I can tell, there are two main reasons companies like Fastmail don't have these problems. The first is that good email providers spend a lot of time maintaining the reputation of the IP addresses they use and shut down bad actors as quickly as possible. The second is that the more people that use the service, the higher percentage of good quality emails being sent, reducing the effect of the occasional bad actor.
I think it's likely that they directly share an allow list of each other's server to form some sort of network of email providers.