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How hard is it to host your own mail server? From what I can see it look pretty much top tier
You apparently easily get your emails stuck in spam filters if you self-host. Also, you'd need to have 100% uptime for this to work as intended, not particularly easy in my situation.
While technically that is true, if you have any other users they will be annoyed. And anyone running iOS will almost immediately get regular popups about the mail server being down (because iOS checks for new mail frequently - and yes I know this can be adjusted) and so they will be telling you straight away.
Also - I’m not convinced that all email servers obey the SMTP standard.
Never! Impressive to not even have a transitory error. Congratulations. My comment on client connection was nothing to do with delivery and more to do with user’s being annoyed at errors. But since you never get errors…