Re: SMTP Server recommendations

Timo Trinks via linux-aus <[email protected]> Fri, 9 Jun 2023 11:28:18 +1000
Newsgroups	gmane.linux.australia
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
Hi!

In addition to IP whitelisting, what's also helped tremendously to improve mail server reputation (running mine as an OpenBSD/OpenSMTP combo) was to have DMARC, DKIM and SPF properly set up...

Cheers,

Timo

On 09.06.2023 08:54, Luke Hovington via linux-aus wrote:
>Hi Russell,
>
>AWS has options for setting up reverse dns entries and unblocking port 25,
>I have my email server setup and running. Besides the normal pain of trying
>to get the IP trusted by other email providers, it was fairly straight
>forward.
>
>Cheers
>Luke
>
>On Fri, 9 Jun 2023 at 08:23, Ian Brown via linux-aus <
>[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Russell,
>>
>> I use BinaryLane for my VPS servers and there is an option to unblock SMTP.
>> The servers are cheap enough as well, which is just an added bonus.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ian
>>
>> On Fri, 9 Jun 2023 at 07:43, Russell Stuart via linux-aus <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm after an SMTP relay service, ie something that accepts email via
>>> SMTP on some port other than 25, and relays it for me.
>>>
>>> The reason is my families email server is one I run myself from a server
>>> sitting a home on a NBN connection with a static IP, but I'm moving
>>> house and will lose access to a static IP for a year or so.  The
>>> simplest thing seems to me to move my email server into a VPS, but it
>>> seems VPS's now near universally block outgoing connections to port 25
>>> for new customers for understandable reasons.
>>>
>>> The VPS providers say you should use an SMTP relay service instead, and
>>> one even suggests a free one to use.  But the suggested free one hasn't
>>> respond to my new account request.  There are others I can try, but
>>> following the other Russell's example I thought I'd ask here first.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regards,
>>> Russell Stuart
>>> +61 438 805 133

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