Does anyone have success stories about self-hosting email, or is it all futile and I should just use a paid service like Fastmail? From what I've found online, self-hosting guarantees that I'll get on someone's spam list, and removing myself from it will require a ton of effort (if it's possible at all).
@minoru Used to host it on my home box, but i don't have a home with a box anymore, so i'm just using riseup.net for personal mail.
@L29Ah @minoru Same here. With a proper security configuration I had no issues over recent years with my personal email.
I use some cheap 128MiB Ram vps box. Nothing fancy.
I think that’s because when everything is properly signed from DNS to IPs then probability that our emails are fishy is negligible.
@L29Ah "Did", so you don't do it anymore? Why? Also, how long did you keep it up, and what did you replace it with?