I don't know how wild this is to ask, but, is anyone looking for small-scale hosted email, for some small-ish, sliding-scale price?
I've been running my own mail server for myself for around 10 years successfully, with good deliverability, TLS support on IMAP/POP3 and SMTP, and little to no downtime. I'd love to support friends who'd also like to get away from GMail or other corporate providers.
I'm dealing with chronic illness & am basically looking for ways to give to my community and make a few dollars to ease my own challenges.
Hi, kira. I'm interested. I have some questions about the service:
Did you ever manage to get the ability to deliver email to Microsoft email properties like Outlook? If so, I'm curious how you managed that.
Do you have a continuity plan? How many people have access to the Registrar account for the domain name of the email server, and to the email server itself ?
I always wanted to do email myself but to be honest I'm still working on building up the infrastructure and capability to be able to support it in a way that I would feel is replicable.
@forestjohnson Hey Forest! Nice to meet you. These are fantastic questions.
I haven't tested against Outlook addresses or similar! If you have one I could try against, I'd also love to know if it accepts it.
Honest answer: no continuity plan as of yet for a post-Kira world. :) I think a more collective email server setup is a really cool idea and would be WAY better for long-term reliability, but right now it's just me using this mail server (and domain).
with cyberia's email server nullhex.com, I have used a 3rd party service called glockapps to help test broad email deliver-ability across a lot of providers -- I just looked at their site and it looks even more gross and corpo / catering to spammers than it used to ... so I wanted to check to see if it still works at all.
Yes this is a very much "hold your nose" situation, but I found this tool to be helpful.
Interestingly, today I have learned something:
Microsoft now spammfolders non-allowlisted domains instead of outright /dev/null-ing them. Hey, that's a big improvement!! difference between the possible and the implausible I suppose 🙄
If you are curious, this is what the output for our server looks like:
@tty
er, I meant to say impossible vs implausible.
Anyways, I would still be interested in supporting your email server monthly. I have to warn you, I might be an annoying customer, but I might also be able to help you diagnose and fix issues, and make the system better.