Most DNSBLs use either a delisting web form or an e-mail contact. In my experience from when I used to host my own e-mail on the cheapest VPS I could find, most delisting requests take minutes, and I don't think I've had any take more than 48 hours. I've had more trouble with VPS providers making it difficult to set PTR records than I've had with DNSBL delisting - AWS are so incomprehensively incompetent at DNS I wouldn't trust them with anything. Speaking of DNS incompetence, there was that time Hurricane Electric messed up so badly they responded NXDOMAIN to all DNS requests, and there was also that time Microsoft finally decided to fix their broken SPF record (I refused to whitelist a multinational out of principle, so all e-mails from Microsoft bounced for several years). I've had so many companies mess up (virtual) servers, e-mail, domain renewals, etc. that I am the registrar for my domain names (no middlemen to break things) and my mail server is a Pi 4B within arm's reach and has an L2TP IPv4/IPv6 connection so it always has the same public IP (even if I have to tether it to my phone during an extended broadband outage). Other than checking the mainstream news for security alerts a la Heartbleed, and having an uptime plan and backup plan, once you know e-mail you only need to spend a few minutes every year looking into any changes in best practices. The big providers will adopt DNSSEC+DANE and stop trying to push inferior MTA-STS any year now...
His points seem to apply to hosting an email server for other people to use. For example, forwarding email (spam) through your server, data privacy rules, using your server to send mass eamil news letters. If you are using this for personal use for family and friends or business where you have control over how your employees use the service and not sending spam yourself I don't see how most of his reasons apply. Also would the use of IPV6 ip addressing avoid the long list of existing blocked ipv4 addresses?
@@IdeaSpot “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” - Martin Luther King, Jr. Like Mr. King, I have a dream, that one day on Redmond or Mountain View California, the sons of former email admins and the sons of corporate owners, will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood, and be able to send email freely without the fear of rejection and blacklisting.
@@IdeaSpot Bullshit. Setup your own mail server, containerized, whatever. Anything beats having genocidal zionist corporations sucking your soul, and every email you send.
@@bob-p7x6j Not well, brother, not well, and yet, we must never lose sight that as long as humanity lives, the dream, and all our hopes, go on. Never yield, never surrender, for humanity can be great again, you just need to believe and when we act on it, it will be so.
Do you know any (possibly free or cheap) SMTP relay service that does not add the "List-unsubscribe" header? I'm sending personal e-mails, not a mailing list :(
Please make an updated video - does this still stand after their 2/2024 algo update (gmail)? Have a friend that has seen an ENORMOUS deliverability boost from a vps.
Totally agree, I have a new client who's email is hosted on a techies email server which is setup to use POP3, not used pop3 in 10 years. I've got the job of migrating 10 emails to exchange. I was hoping to use the Microsoft email migration tool but I don't think that is an option?
i haven't looked at it since Bill Clinton was president, dosen't seem like there is an offical way to do it, but a workaround could be to export as pst first: community.spiceworks.com/how_to/186408-migrate-pop3-email-to-office-365-step-by-step-in-easy-ways
@@IdeaSpot I have heard something called Microsoft purview which allows bulk PST files to be added to accounts. Just trying find a video for the process. Looks a bit complicated to me
Hi Alex, I hope you are doing really well. I have been watching your cloud hosting-related videos for a few weeks now. Recently, Namecheep suggested that I migrate my shared hosting to their cloud hosting (One kind of force). Unfortunately, I didn't have a way to do that at the time. I'm not very technical, and after migrating my hosting to the cloud, I realized that I don't know much about cloud hosting. I am commenting here to find out if it's possible for me to migrate my website back to shared hosting with another hosting company. I would appreciate your answer as I'm not sure about this. It would be great if I could get back my old cPanel. Thanks,
What do you think about cpanel email and roundcube client, that's what we get with shared hosting. I personally had no major problems, I'm interested in your experience, whether it worked for you or not, and what you propose as an adequate alternative. Thank you
These can be ok, the software you mention is good - the real question is the team managing it, how good are they at keeping it secure and kicking out spammers on their network? If it's working ok for your needs then its fine. In my own experience, when you're trying to email important people who work in MS/Google/Apple environment, you will have more success with the mainstream options. How much $ is it worth to NOT have the conversation 'yes we sent it...did you check your spam folder'?
@@IdeaSpot I agree, you are absolutely right. I almost had a situation where more than 10 computers in one company use the same email office@domain, so I couldn't implement google workspace because their system can see a large number of logins to the same account as a security risk and block the account, so I didn't find another solution besides the default cpanel email.
Hi Alex, can you please test: BitFire Security - RASP Firewall. BitFire: Performance: adds 1% to page creation time Memory: adds 0.01% to memory usage WordFence: Performance: adds 44% to page creation time Memory: adds 125% to memory usage
Nope, this guy is totally wrong. If you do everything right, you’ll get 100% deliverability. What do you need to do it right? Multiple servers; clean static IP addresses; external DNS MX, A, and PTR records; SPF, DKIM, and DMARC; great anti spam and anti malware services.
I run my own mail servers and never a single one of them got blacklisted or hacked. So please.
Most DNSBLs use either a delisting web form or an e-mail contact. In my experience from when I used to host my own e-mail on the cheapest VPS I could find, most delisting requests take minutes, and I don't think I've had any take more than 48 hours.
I've had more trouble with VPS providers making it difficult to set PTR records than I've had with DNSBL delisting - AWS are so incomprehensively incompetent at DNS I wouldn't trust them with anything. Speaking of DNS incompetence, there was that time Hurricane Electric messed up so badly they responded NXDOMAIN to all DNS requests, and there was also that time Microsoft finally decided to fix their broken SPF record (I refused to whitelist a multinational out of principle, so all e-mails from Microsoft bounced for several years).
I've had so many companies mess up (virtual) servers, e-mail, domain renewals, etc. that I am the registrar for my domain names (no middlemen to break things) and my mail server is a Pi 4B within arm's reach and has an L2TP IPv4/IPv6 connection so it always has the same public IP (even if I have to tether it to my phone during an extended broadband outage).
Other than checking the mainstream news for security alerts a la Heartbleed, and having an uptime plan and backup plan, once you know e-mail you only need to spend a few minutes every year looking into any changes in best practices. The big providers will adopt DNSSEC+DANE and stop trying to push inferior MTA-STS any year now...
Can you share any gold nuggets?
We have been running our own mail servers using the same two static IP addresses for twenty years, and they work great.
How do these points not also apply to a third-party email service? Sounds self-refuting.
His points seem to apply to hosting an email server for other people to use. For example, forwarding email (spam) through your server, data privacy rules, using your server to send mass eamil news letters. If you are using this for personal use for family and friends or business where you have control over how your employees use the service and not sending spam yourself I don't see how most of his reasons apply. Also would the use of IPV6 ip addressing avoid the long list of existing blocked ipv4 addresses?
silent war big corps vs all of us
We lost that one a long time ago 😂
@@IdeaSpot “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Like Mr. King, I have a dream, that one day on Redmond or Mountain View California, the sons of former email admins and the sons of corporate owners, will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood, and be able to send email freely without the fear of rejection and blacklisting.
@@IdeaSpot Bullshit. Setup your own mail server, containerized, whatever. Anything beats having genocidal zionist corporations sucking your soul, and every email you send.
@@cotizacionesequipo1719 ha ha, how is that working out?
@@bob-p7x6j Not well, brother, not well, and yet, we must never lose sight that as long as humanity lives, the dream, and all our hopes, go on. Never yield, never surrender, for humanity can be great again, you just need to believe and when we act on it, it will be so.
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Many of my business clients want to have their own mail server (plesk, cpanel, hmailserver). The reason is data privacy...
Do you know any (possibly free or cheap) SMTP relay service that does not add the "List-unsubscribe" header? I'm sending personal e-mails, not a mailing list :(
what about for only receiving email but for sending email use something like postmarkapp? is it still worth the cost you think?
I think this is directly depends on the kind of marketing you intend on doing
Please make an updated video - does this still stand after their 2/2024 algo update (gmail)?
Have a friend that has seen an ENORMOUS deliverability boost from a vps.
Hello how did he get to send with a vps?
Totally agree, I have a new client who's email is hosted on a techies email server which is setup to use POP3, not used pop3 in 10 years. I've got the job of migrating 10 emails to exchange. I was hoping to use the Microsoft email migration tool but I don't think that is an option?
i haven't looked at it since Bill Clinton was president, dosen't seem like there is an offical way to do it, but a workaround could be to export as pst first: community.spiceworks.com/how_to/186408-migrate-pop3-email-to-office-365-step-by-step-in-easy-ways
@@IdeaSpot yes that's what I'm investigating although it's for 11 emails which is annoying
Yup sometimes we just have to roll up the sleeves and break rocks for a few hours 😅
@@IdeaSpot I have heard something called Microsoft purview which allows bulk PST files to be added to accounts. Just trying find a video for the process. Looks a bit complicated to me
Would it be possible to fire out emails from your server via rotational 4G Mobile proxies?
Port will likely be blocked, but if u get it working go for it 😆
My domain email reputation gone bad with gmail. Now I am self hosting with subdomains.
Hi Alex,
I hope you are doing really well. I have been watching your cloud hosting-related videos for a few weeks now. Recently, Namecheep suggested that I migrate my shared hosting to their cloud hosting (One kind of force).
Unfortunately, I didn't have a way to do that at the time. I'm not very technical, and after migrating my hosting to the cloud, I realized that I don't know much about cloud hosting.
I am commenting here to find out if it's possible for me to migrate my website back to shared hosting with another hosting company. I would appreciate your answer as I'm not sure about this. It would be great if I could get back my old cPanel.
Thanks,
What do you think about cpanel email and roundcube client, that's what we get with shared hosting. I personally had no major problems, I'm interested in your experience, whether it worked for you or not, and what you propose as an adequate alternative. Thank you
These can be ok, the software you mention is good - the real question is the team managing it, how good are they at keeping it secure and kicking out spammers on their network? If it's working ok for your needs then its fine. In my own experience, when you're trying to email important people who work in MS/Google/Apple environment, you will have more success with the mainstream options. How much $ is it worth to NOT have the conversation 'yes we sent it...did you check your spam folder'?
@@IdeaSpot I agree, you are absolutely right. I almost had a situation where more than 10 computers in one company use the same email office@domain, so I couldn't implement google workspace because their system can see a large number of logins to the same account as a security risk and block the account, so I didn't find another solution besides the default cpanel email.
Would you recommend namesilo? Are they good?
This the closest explanation to understanding email. Idk why it isnt explained more so thank you very much for this explanation
Glad it helped!
Hi Alex, can you please test: BitFire Security - RASP Firewall.
BitFire:
Performance: adds 1% to page creation time
Memory: adds 0.01% to memory usage
WordFence:
Performance: adds 44% to page creation time
Memory: adds 125% to memory usage
this is a message of discouragement
Great video 😊 thanks Alex
How much did you get paid to make this video?
Thanks bro
Nope, this guy is totally wrong. If you do everything right, you’ll get 100% deliverability. What do you need to do it right? Multiple servers; clean static IP addresses; external DNS MX, A, and PTR records; SPF, DKIM, and DMARC; great anti spam and anti malware services.
hope that was sarcasm....
That is why something like a Rackspace is a better idea in the long run.
Fed
Would be good to have a video regarding this but specific to self hosting email in australia. isps etc...
I don’t think any ISP will allow port 25 on a residential connection - have you had a look at what options are available?