On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 02:34:48PM +0000, mick wrote:
On Thu, 24 Dec 2020 15:10:16 +0000 Chris Green cl@isbd.net allegedly wrote:
On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 02:34:25PM +0000, mick wrote: [snip tale of woe]
The reason I am seeking advice here is that some of you also run email servers (or may have dome so in the past). Ideally I would like to continue to run my own server. I like the control and flexibility it gives me. But it is becoming increasingly difficult to do so in the face of the kind of opposition I see. I see only two options.
- I find a new VPS provider which can guarantee that its network
will not be blocked by lazy idiots and I move to them.
or
- I give up and move my email to a third party provider (such as
Ionos)
There is a third way. I run a postfix server on my desktop machine at home (it could as well be a Raspberry Pi if you don't want to leave your desktop machine on all the time). It receives E-Mail for my domain like any other SMTP server, it *sends* E-Mail via my hosting provider's 'Smart host' server and thus it's my hosting provider has to jump through the hoops you're hitting.
I think this gives you much of what you want without (some of) the hassle.
Thanks for this Chris
I hadn't considered using a relay, but your reply prompted me to investigate third party relay providers. Turns out there are quite a few out there (mostly to handle "bulk" email, but I don't see why they couldn't be used for my modest needs).
If I can't find an alternative truusted VPS provider I'll investigate some of these relays (such as sendgrid, smtp2go etc) since I'd really like to leave my mailserver where it is rather than run one at home.
In principle your mail server could use a smart host in exactly the same way that mine does. I've got two hosting providers that I use for different things, one is TsoHost.co.uk and the other is gandi.net in France. You'd only have to register a domain (or move one) to be able to use their E-Mail services.