Ditto. Although I keep thinking about going back to it.
99.9% of the time self hosting is fine. But then a critical business email is never received (like replying to an interview request or business proposal). The worst part is you never even know it failed to be received. The worst offenders are outlook.com and yahoo.com in my experience of self-hosting email for about 10 years. I stopped around 4 years ago after a critical email disappeared and impacted me financially.
Only way to guarantee your emails are always sent and received is to use a major email provider, sadly. Or hire a team to actively look after your domain and make sure large providers are not filtering your emails.
However, given my emails now are pretty much just for personal usage, I may look at moving back to self hosted. Greylisting is the superior approach to spam control imo and you can only get this with self hosted. Mox looks really great and I'll def consider it.
99.9% of the time self hosting is fine. But then a critical business email is never received (like replying to an interview request or business proposal). The worst part is you never even know it failed to be received. The worst offenders are outlook.com and yahoo.com in my experience of self-hosting email for about 10 years. I stopped around 4 years ago after a critical email disappeared and impacted me financially.
Only way to guarantee your emails are always sent and received is to use a major email provider, sadly. Or hire a team to actively look after your domain and make sure large providers are not filtering your emails.
However, given my emails now are pretty much just for personal usage, I may look at moving back to self hosted. Greylisting is the superior approach to spam control imo and you can only get this with self hosted. Mox looks really great and I'll def consider it.