[grymoire1]

I run an AWS instance that hosts my own domain mail server. I have hundreds of email addresses, and each of them is forwarded to a gmail account. (I use the [e-mail] to make each one unique. I do this to identify and squash spam - if one email address becomes contaminated, I delete it and change my email on the compromised company's server.

I also run a mailing list server.

So my email is usually sent from a gmail.com address, and I usually receive email on my own domain.

Some lessons - sending email from your own domain is difficult as you have to not only make it accepting to spammer-averse sites. You also have to protect it from sites that would LOVE to relay email through your server.

As for receiving and reading email on your own domain - you have to provide your own spam filters - and this is VERY DIFFICULT. 320 billion spam emails are sent every day, and 94% of malware is delivered in those emails. That's one reason I use gmail as the way I read email.

[zokier]

if you are running on aws, then using ses "solves" outgoing mail?