On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 12:59:06PM +0530, Didar Hossain wrote: > Hi, > > I want to host my own email on the cloud - I don't want to use G Suite or any > other commercial service because I would like to have control over my email. > > I read around a little and it seems that most cloud providers block SMTP ports > (25,587,465) from/t the internet as well sometimes from within their network. > This poses a real problem for my deployment plans. Also, note that my design > has > separate MSA (submission), Mailstore (IMAP) and MTA (MX) nodes. > > I have shortlisted Digital Ocean and Linode for my use because both of > datacenters in India. Is anyone using either of them for MX service? > > Any and all feedback is most welcome including specialist/small VPS providers > who I can consider to host the MX node for my domain at least. >
I think all ISP should be fine. I sometime feel for a mailserver it is more important to have a decent DNS provider than where you actually run your mailserver. Because as a minimum you want to set up SPF and DKIM. Most ISP require to register an outgoing mail server with them. This is also important that they set up a reverse ptr for your host. One note on Digital Ocean. In my experience there is a lot of spam originating from Digital Ocean. This potentially could cause you some trouble. But this might be just my personal "feeling". I never ran the numbers on ISP spam submission rates. I currently use AWS for my mailservers. In the past I used A1flexus for dedicated servers. They are on Long Island and were very "linux friendly" at that time. -H -- Henning Follmann | hfollm...@itcfollmann.com
