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I added this step because gmail doesn't do DKIM and DMARC, so my emails were being marked as spam by aggressive systems. mail-tester.com rates me at 9.3/10, and the missing points are mostly because my domain is less than 4 weeks old.", "context": "", "use_case": "outgoing SMTP for custom domain", "switched_from": "", "story": "All I wanted was a custom domain email"}, {"id": 784690000, "item_id": 49043125, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49043125", "by": "jeremyevans", "date": "2026-07-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "switched from SendGrid to smtp2go last year", "excerpt": "I've done the same for about 5 years (switched from SendGrid to smtp2go last year). 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Then all my IMAP clients connect to that single instance. Also, for email sending I use smtp2go free tier - primarily because I use random emails on my own domains to see who's leaking, and I don't want to set them up separately proton-side. In that setup, proton itself is kinda unnecessary - I keep that path mostly as an insurance, just", "context": "", "use_case": "outbound email sending", "switched_from": "", "story": "What I self-host"}, {"id": 801785776, "item_id": 50111611, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50111611", "by": "caymanjim", "date": "2026-10-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Now I use smtp2go for relaying outbound mail, but still handle all inbound mail.", "excerpt": "You'll know from bounced email and logs, which you should have monitoring setup on. It's not trivial to run your own email stack, but it's not hard either. It's more tedious than anything. Once it's up and running, it's low-maintenance. And it's fairly trivial to avoid spam. I get vastly more spam in my Gmail than I do on my self-hosted domains. The biggest challenge with self-hosted email is getting an IP address th", "context": "runs self-hosted email on a VPS", "use_case": "outbound mail relay", "switched_from": "", "story": "What I self-host"}, {"id": 799391632, "item_id": 49961977, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49961977", "by": "nottorp", "date": "2026-10-05", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I\u2019ll give them a try", "excerpt": "Gmail will drop support for sending from custom domains (at least those that aren\u2019t hosted with them) next year btw. That\u2019s why I\u2019m looking for another smtp solution. In the mean time I\u2019ve checked them (smtp2go) a bit and apparently they do work on having a good reputation and allow you to add them as a smart host to your own smtp server so looks like I\u2019ll give them a try.", "context": "", "use_case": "outgoing SMTP for custom domain", "switched_from": "", "story": "All I wanted was a custom domain email"}, {"id": 799386656, "item_id": 49961666, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49961666", "by": "jibalt", "date": "2026-10-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use it for outgoing SMTP from my gmail agent, identified as coming from me@mydomain.com", "excerpt": "I use it for outgoing SMTP from my gmail agent, identified as coming from me@mydomain.com ... I added this step because gmail doesn't do DKIM and DMARC, so my emails were being marked as spam by aggressive systems. mail-tester.com rates me at 9.3/10, and the missing points are mostly because my domain is less than 4 weeks old.", "context": "", "use_case": "outgoing SMTP for custom domain", "switched_from": "", "story": "All I wanted was a custom domain email"}, {"id": 799338802, "item_id": 49958675, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49958675", "by": "jibalt", "date": "2026-10-04", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "SMTP2Go for low volume outbound", "excerpt": "I just dealt with this due to the impending termination of .name email. I use a combination of gmail as my mail agent, CloudFlare for the domain, and SMTP2Go for low volume outbound with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC. I don't have any Apple usage or requirements. Oh, I just remembered that I send mail received by my CloudFlare domain to both gmail and zohomail, and use Thunderbird as the mail agent for the latter.", "context": "", "use_case": "outbound email", "switched_from": "", "story": "All I wanted was a custom domain email"}, {"id": 784690000, "item_id": 49043125, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49043125", "by": "jeremyevans", "date": "2026-07-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "switched from SendGrid to smtp2go last year", "excerpt": "I've done the same for about 5 years (switched from SendGrid to smtp2go last year). I blogged about it when I first set it up: https://code.jeremyevans.net/2021-07-29-running-my-own-email-server.html", "context": "self-hosts email for about 5 years", "use_case": "outgoing mail with self-hosted incoming", "switched_from": "SendGrid", "story": "Self-host your mail server"}]}