Self hosted email server for small business? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by Loud_Addendum1237@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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I want to set up an outgoing transactional email server for my small business. Do I need to purchase IP blocks? Given most IPs from VPS will have bad reputation.

Please respond only if you have ran an SMTP server. Not looking for heresay.

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[-] Professional-Bug2305@alien.top 0 points 1 year ago

The first question to ask is why? Exchange on prem is nothing but a pending security breech. Especially at a small business without dedicated experts and resources. You're realistically not going to save money either with how cheap hosted email is in comparison to a virtualization stack underlying storage, and monthly management time. You'll also have less uptime than Microsoft.

Coming from someone who was managing exchange on prem 6 months ago until I left that train wreck of an environment.

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