[MlMt] I need a email provider with: catchall receiving - wildcard sending

[Bill Cole]

On 2024-08-30 at 13:22:20 UTC-0400 (Fri, 30 Aug 2024 10:22:20 -0700)
Randall Gellens <mailmate at lists.freron.com>
is rumored to have said:

> On 30 Aug 2024, at 5:15, Charlie Clark wrote:
>
>> On 29 Aug 2024, at 18:41, Randall Gellens wrote:
>>
>>> I've been running my own mail server since last century and haven't 
>>> run into any problems with big email providers not accepting my 
>>> mail. What problems did you have?
>>
>> You may just be lucky. Normally, they want at least DKIM and SPF 
>> records and you might still be greylisted.
>
> Yes, I did need to create SPF records in my DNS, but aside from that, 
> nothing else. I didn't need DKIM. I also make sure there are no open 
> relays, of course.

It may be relevant that you, me, and everyone else who has been running 
their own mail since the 90's have benefitted from having started before 
the mail universe was centralized to a few behemoths who have now 
learned to be suspicious of new entrants. Google and MS have had a long 
time to learn to accept your mail and my mail.


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Bill Cole
bill at scconsult.com or billcole at apache.org
(AKA @grumpybozo at toad.social and many *@billmail.scconsult.com 
addresses)
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