Success. Today's mission was to get outbound emails working to mask my IP and have a good sending reputation. I've had a resend.com account for a while and now they support smtp relay service. While I try to self host a much as I can, masking IPs requires some cloud service and my VPS provider has a terrible IP reputation so here we are.
Anyway git patch submissions via email should be easier to handle and automate when the time comes.
I think one eventual solution to ip masking is that we will only connect to trusted friends. That way the people you really don't want knowing your address won't be able to contact you at all.
I only wish I could devise a way to connect directly with friends without IP. Neutrino beams?
Lets not forget the real problem is that ISPs MAKE YOUR LOCATION PUBLIC ON PURPOSE
And the issue with hosting public "professional" services is that you need everyone to be able to discover you somehow
I'm hosting my mail on a name cheap VPS and I still get stuffed into spam all the time, despite following all the current email specs. Would this help me get into inboxes?
Resend seems to see this as a priority, so there is a good chance yes. I use Linode (akami) mostly for my personal stuff and their IP reputation is terrible for basically everything. Resend lands in every inbox I've tested with friends and family (yahoo and gmail being the most difficult usually), so far it's been great. However most places with good reputations heavily scrutinize your behaviors such as not to ruin that reputation. So you do need to configure all the DNS stuff correctly and have a valid reporting address too.
