On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 1:11 AM Hans-Martin Mosner via mailop < mailop@mailop.org> wrote:
> Some DO customers actually do send email from their droplets. Some of them > aren't even spammers, so I would suspect that for them, bad IP reputation > probably means inferior deliverability. But you may be right, and those few > customers are just a drop in the ocean :-) > True, but that seems like bad planning on the customer end. If I want to send outbound mail for anything other than "I'm playing with mail servers and learning how stuff works", I'm going to go find someone that can provide a reasonable reputation and doesn't cater to having the cheapest and fastest way to spin up VMs. I'm not knocking that business model, but it comes with some trade-offs. If I can spin up a cheap VM quickly, so can abusers. Not to get too off-topic, but most of my customers use Google or Microsoft for their email now. If a customer has a fleet of copiers or other things that need to send email (UPS units, monitoring tools, etc...), I just set up a simple mail relay that's locked down to their IP address, does a bit of cleanup on the messages, and then shoves it up to their Google or Microsoft account. 99% of the mail from the relay box is going to the customer domain anyways. I'm betting I could even do that through Digital Ocean without any trouble. -A
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