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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net

I #Selfhost my email server (that handles my 20+ domains) since almost 20 years now, currently on a cheap virtual machine running Linux, with 1 CPU core, 2G of RAM, 40G hard drive and unlimited network traffic which costs me less than €5/month.

Many people keep on telling me that running your own email server is more or less impossible. I simply don't listen to them.

I explained my setup in a blog series starting at jan.wildeboer.net/2022/08/Emai

#DigitalAutonomy @homelab

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bbuk @bbuk@mastodon.social

@jwildeboer @homelab Does that (netcup?) include a fixed ipv4 address with rDNS? might be worth learning German for ;)

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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net

@bbuk It's even worse ;) It's a VM at OVH. And yes, it comes with both an IPv4 address and an IPv6 range where you can configure the reverse lookup hostname. @homelab

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bbuk @bbuk@mastodon.social

@jwildeboer @homelab Sounds very tempting. The reputation of the rest of the ipv4 block would be the biggest unknown. Maybe I lucked out with my current neighbours?

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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net

@bbuk IP reputation is overrated, in my experience. Yes, some smaller mail servers still use weird blocklists that use IP ranges, but mostly, especially in times of IPv6, that doesn't make a lot of sense. The big mail providers use different signals nowadays, IP reputation doesn't play that big of a role anymore. @homelab

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