I’m planning the transition to self-hosted mail. I did fully self-host mail >10 years ago, so I know how to do it in essence, but I’d like to go a bit softer now, and not host outbound myself, it’s just too annoying.
What’s your take on that? Do you self-host SMTP as well? Why or why not?
If not, what providers do you use for it (especially in Europe, or even Germany)? How reliable are they? What’s the maximum attachment size? What do you pay for it?
I self host my own mail, SMTP in and out. But I’ve also had this vps in the US from a small local hosting provider for a decade. Unfortunately vps providers can be a crap shoot if you’re looking for a new one. My back up plan is this one goes south is to just use a cloud provider’s SMTP relay service (eg aws) because their prices for that sort of thing are extremely reasonable for small volume.