hosting mail

posted on February 25, 2025

as i wrote on the index, i stopped paying for proton after (1) i noticed it didnt bring many improvements over gmail and (2) went down multiple times, including a ~5h downtime like a week before my thing was about to renew

sooo yeah i guess now i don’t have an email provider for my domain mail!

i found mox which seems like a good program to have something that just works

issue is, most vps providers (mine included) don’t allow outbound port 25 connections (for smtp) soo i spent a few hours configuring something that doesn’t fully work lel

i can receive mail but i cannot send it. i guess i’ll email support and check if i can get the port opened (valued customer btw) by begging hard enough that i can be trusted with port 25 privileges :^)

btw inb4 comments, i already know self-hosting email is stupid but it’s for this blog so who cares, it’s fun.

anon 2025-02-28 (12:13 am) No. 123297 reply

why would self-hostingemial be stupid. it's based
anon 2025-02-28 (9:53 am) No. 123298 reply

>>123297
tbh i've never done it before but the only argument against it would be that big providers (e.g. google, microsoft) could just add you to their blocklists without a second thought and you'd basically be cucked

this is assuming you care about delivering mail to them. if you only msg people that self host then yeah, there'd be no issues
anon 2025-03-13 (8:11 am) No. 123299 reply

I've spent a lot of time self-hosting mail. The issue isn't finding a host to unblock port 25 the problem is having a VPS with a blocked ip range—which will almost always be the csae.

Good luck mate.