The act of maintaining an email server and managing your relationship with well-known peers (especially with major mail service providers) is unfortunately nontrivial.
The big dogs often act as if they own the Net, which, in a sense, they do (they account for a very large portion of email). And even as rational actors, they'll prioritize delivery/peer issues with other larger providers and organizations over Joe Part-time-postmaster. This isn't 1996 any more.
Not saying you can't do it, but you may find that you'll want to at least use a larger MSP as a your egress pathway.
I have a lot of gripes over Google (evil or otherwise) myself, but they are among my mail providers.
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The act of maintaining an email server and managing your relationship with well-known peers (especially with major mail service providers) is unfortunately nontrivial.
The big dogs often act as if they own the Net, which, in a sense, they do (they account for a very large portion of email). And even as rational actors, they'll prioritize delivery/peer issues with other larger providers and organizations over Joe Part-time-postmaster. This isn't 1996 any more.
Not saying you can't do it, but you may find that you'll want to at least use a larger MSP as a your egress pathway.
I have a lot of gripes over Google (evil or otherwise) myself, but they are among my mail providers.