After the whole lavabit no support issue. I decided to hosted my own email servers which has been interesting.
- What type of email software to use, mailcow, smart mail. mailu
- Find a provider with clean and non blacklisted ips
- Making sure the emails show up in the inbox and not spam
- finding the right vps – if someone used the vps to abuse the ip it just makes it harder on everyone else to use it the proper way.
- make sure to add DKIM,DMARC,SPF in to the dns record.
So far what I had to do on my server is this:
- Verify the ip / domain address was clean though mxtoolbox
- Tested Mailcow, mailinabox, mailu. Figured out I like Mailu it’s very simple
- Made sure I had the correct dns added such as spf,dkim, dmarc so emails would show up in the actual inbox and not as spam.
- After finding the ip was on sorbs, spamhaus, outlook I had to go through request the ip be deblacklisted.
- After nearly week in a half I’m able to send and receive emails from and to gmail and hotmail which before I wasn’t able to.
