Small mail server best current practices
With all the fixes and standards just to send a cute cat GIFs to your friends on Gmail is such a pain in the butt for most self hosters. If you&#x27;re doing it, great! Keep it up! All the better for you. But for me, using a e-mail hosting provider with a good reputation is preferable, they&#x27;ve already done all the hard work (my preference is FastMail, but it&#x27;s not everyone&#x27;s cup of tea). I&#x27;ve been in the IT field for almost 20 years, I&#x27;ve done the self hosting e-mail thing. In my early teens and 20s, I didn&#x27;t have anyone to please or take care of, so keeping up was easy with new e-mail standards as they rolled out, 15-20 years later, I&#x27;m divorced, work full time and have two kids, I simply don&#x27;t have the time to self-host anymore. I&#x27;d rather give somebody a few $ a month to take care of that for me.