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What Are Your Favorite Alternatives to Gmail or Outlook? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm contemplating taking control of my email by moving away from mainstream providers like Gmail or Outlook. What self-hosted email services have you tried, and which ones do you find most reliable and user-friendly? Are there any challenges or advantages you've encountered in making the switch?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Just need to check it first (port 25) and use providers with good reputation. Many years I got many VPS-based mailservers without any problems with IP block or similar problems. Just need to make initial setup of you server correctly. Reputation services are not banning big ranges of IP addresses because of one stupid-spam server in providers network. But if you can't deny free relay on your host, it's just your problem and no problem of your provider.