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neilv on July 18, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Stalwart All-in-One Mail Server (IMAP, JMAP, SMTP)

> pain of self-hosting email for a long was ensuring delivery, but with SMTP relay services also getting quite slick that doesn't seem as much of a blocker anymore

Has the definition of self-hosting email evolved to include using a third-party SMTP relay service?

(It's always been a slightly fuzzy definition, and maybe the last time it shifted was when it included running on cloud servers/VPS rather computer hardware that you own.)

EvanAnderson on July 18, 2023 [–]

I used ISP SMTP servers for outbound relay back in the late 90s when installing on-prem email servers. It struck me as a fairly common thing then.

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