* Patrick Proniewski via Postfix-users: > So I guess I can rent a VPS and send my SMTP flow through the VPS IP > address. Question is: what would be the best way to do this?
"Best" is subjective. A typical approach is to rent a VPS or VM with at least a static IPv4 address (plus IPv6 if available), and set up Postfix on that machine as an outbound mail relay for authenticated clients. Appropriate DNS records for forward and reverse resolution and SPF are a must, or big players like Google or Microsoft won't accept mail from your relayhost. Optional services like DKIM signing can be added. DNSSEC should also be considered. > The simplest setup that would have the least overhead / > over-engineering and the best resilience. Operating your own mail relay anno 2026 takes careful thought and some work. Otherwise you'll have a hard time getting third party servers to accept your mail. As for resilience: Using one lone relayhost obviously creates a single point of failure. If that's an issue, you might be better off relaying through somebody else's redundant infrastructure. -Ralph _______________________________________________ Postfix-users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
