Is it useful to have your own mail server as a non-business? Just a private person. Configure SMTP and IMAP for it, sync with outlook I think.
Yay or nay, waste of time? What are your thoughts?
Is it useful to have your own mail server as a non-business? Just a private person. Configure SMTP and IMAP for it, sync with outlook I think.
Yay or nay, waste of time? What are your thoughts?
A provider that isn’t on the ball about managing outbound spam will quickly find their IPs (if not the whole prefix) blocked. If someone runs a spambot from a VPS, and then you get the recycled IPv4 address when the instance is removed, what’s to tell Microsoft you’re not also a spammer?
I work for a cloud provider, and even if I wanted to, I could not check for outgoing spam, other than reacting to the NOC mails.
Most mail server use transport encryption, which I can absolutly not inspect.
I never said anything about monitoring outbound SMTP traffic.
The more realistic mitigations are e.g. periodic scanning for open relays, actually handling abuse email reports, RBL checking
I’ve been an admin for a couple of different companies that sent statements to customers. Keeping our legit email systems off spam lists was a daily challenge.