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lakeviewterrace • today at 12:00 AM • 4 replies • view on HN

Funny, they have no problem handling mail for essentially every Fortune 500 company and others large and small.

It's always people self-hosting mail on a shared server in Moldova (because they think it makes them cool) that are complaining.


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pembrook • today at 12:41 AM

Self hosting mail on a shared server in Moldova is basically the entire idea behind email (and the internet).

Which with cheap models like Jev as spam classifiers, this can now become a reality.

The problem is, Google and Microsoft have monopolized the entire email market, so their esoteric deliverability mysticism from 2007 still persists (basically blanket bans on entire IP spaces, locking out anybody trying to send emails on their own).

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pacija • today at 12:17 AM

Nope, people self-hosting mail on their own hardware from their own basement in Serbia ;)

https://www.mimar.rs/blog/a-journey-of-my-mx-server-to-new-r...

And yes, it's cool not to have to let scum read your private communications :D

Ungh • today at 7:18 AM

Err we are part of a Fortune 500 and we can't even deliver to ourselves sometimes.

jaza • today at 5:00 AM

Maybe because every Fortune 500 company (and 99% of all large companies / orgs worldwide) uses O365 / Exchange / GSuite?