[ale] Why Run your own email server?

[DJ-Pfulio]

Nice necrothread.

We've been blacklisted by 1 regional ISP, once in 20+ yrs running email
servers. That ISP runs multiple domains and only 1 of those has a single
domain blacklisted. Replied to 1 email, send to me by one of their
customer's systems, pointing out it was spam. That was it. Blacklisted.
That ISP has been bought out now, but they still run the domain for
legacy reasons.  Attempts to be removed failed multiple times. Just
wasn't worth it to keep trying.

Never allowed spam relay, so that hasn't been an issue.

In short, there is a slight learning curve to running email - not due to
SMTP, but due to everything we do to avoid _bad users_ trying to abuse
SMTP - but after that is handled, it is pretty much just another service
that gets patched and not really looked at all that much.

On 11/15/2016 02:26 PM, Scott Plante wrote:
> My experience has been the same. We were blacklisted at least once but
> no more than three times, and it's been years since. I remember one of
> the things we needed to do was get our DNS all correct with reverse
> resolve on the IP address and long TTL values. And, of course, make sure
> no one is relaying spam through your server!
> Scott
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From: *"Ben Coleman" <oloryn at benshome.net>
> *To: *ale at ale.org
> *Sent: *Tuesday, November 15, 2016 4:25:40 AM
> *Subject: *Re: [ale] Why Run your own email server?
> 
> On 9/29/2016 01:21 PM, George P. Burdell wrote:
>> Anybody who has actually run their own mail servers for a while knows
>> how much of a tremendous chore it is just to keep your mail from being
>> blacklisted.
> 
> Actually, I've run my own mail server for 15 years, and if I ever had to
> deal with blacklisting, it's been years since.  I keep an eye out, just
> in case, but it certainly hasn't been a tremendous chore.
>