Replying to Avatar Jack Spirko

I asked a question a few weeks ago it was....

"Okay so you self custody your bitcoin but what about your email"?

The responses I got were well confusing to me. The discussions I have seen since more so. Why do you folks think you will not be able to get past spam filtering if you run an email server?

I have been doing it since the early 00s. It has never been much of a problem. Once in a while we have to validate with say Gmail or Yahoo. This is really hard I admit. Sometimes you have to click a link other times enter a code. Really really complicated I guess.

Let me just say stop believing people that tell you anything is "too hard" or "won't work". Imagine if you had listened to such things about bitcoin.
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Sandor Clegane 1y ago

Depends what you mean by self host.

What do you mean by it? Your own hardware on your own premises? Or hosted on a virtual server somewhere?

Is the net connection residential or business?

Top level domain?

There were practices at the time that automatically blacklisted SMTP servers run on residential networks when the ports themselves were not outright blocked, it wasn't just on residential they were playing those games either & I don't know about Google or Yahoo but Microsoft were doing dodgy filtering as were some of the ISPs here.

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Sandor Clegane 1y ago

There are still many people who use email providers other than Google & Yahoo, maybe things have changed & they just borrow Google's lists shrug.

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Sandor Clegane 1y ago

Makes you wonder why anyone stayed with those doing the dodgy...