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Setting up an email server is really straightforward with simple-nixos-mailserver, highly recommend. No idea how likely you are to be classified as spam though from a new domain
I host my own email and for my day job I run an institutional email system that handles ~50 million messages per week. I can't recommend hosting email at either end of that scale (or anywhere in between), and I find it difficult to believe that anyone with experience running a mail server would claim it's reasonable or straightforward.
i host my mail services for the last twenty seven years, and yeah, you're talking shit. starting the smtp daemon is not the same as managing mail server.
this is one of the circles of hell Dante didn’t comprehend when he wrote Inferno
coming up on 18y on mine. my postfix config is almost of legal drinking age in a lot of countries.
modern email ecosystem is a fucking mess.
chance is near 100% though
it's also really, really fucking unpredictable, in the the-other-parties-do-not-reliably-behave-the-same way
used to hate having to debug mail failing to deliver to yahoo, and now lately google has started filling that niche..
eh, nix is experiencing a chudpocalypse at the moment, which might be why you're catching strays