[slowbdotro]

I agree. Self hosted my email for over a decade and as long as you do the recommended SPF, DKIM and DMARC you have basically no problems.

Occasionally I turn up in spam when I email someone I haven't before, but that's usually due to the .ro in my domain and the forced text mode rather than html.

I've found problems only start occuring when you send transactional email. User signups, notifications, etc. Anything really automated.

I think people like to joke on self hosting email because there are a lot of moving parts and it was hard to diagnose why something went wrong. Until the last decade and early 2010s there were no all in one self hosted solutions that made it easy & available for most to do it.

[77pt77]

> Occasionally I turn up in spam when I email someone I haven't before

Just proved my point.

[petee]

Google puts random things in Spam, including ones marked 'not spam' or from otherwise reputable senders (like Github, despite receiving their emails for a decade). My monthly credit card bills occasionally are dumped in spam.

Its not really proof of much unless one is constantly getting junked

[8organicbits]

Last week I saw the same behavior sending email from my work's Google Workspace account to my personal Gmail account. The email stays within Google, I'm logged into both accounts on the same computer, does Google think I am I spamming myself...?