I used a professional transactional email service with a dedicated IP. One of Germany's largest email providers blocked me anyway - for not sending enough email. And people suggested I should self-host?
I wrote about building my startup on European infrastructure. One thing I mentioned in passing was using Scaleway's Transactional Email service (TEM).
Mentioning a TEM generated more baffling (to me, obviously) "well actually" replies than anything else in the post.
People on different platforms, some of whom had, upon closer inspection, pretty technical titles in their LinkedIn bios, suggested I should just run my own mail server.
Dovecot, Postfix, a VPS, done. How hard could it be?
From the bottom of my heart: do not do this... unless you enjoy pain.
I don't know you, dear reader... whatever works best for you I guess?
I thought this was obvious. Apparently not.
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