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[–] RogueJello@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Literally the worst that can happen to me if I’m really really unlucky is end up tied down to a single provider, same as you.

No, there are a lot more risks you're running that I am not. Since you control your infrastructure, you're also responsible for it. Current penalty under CAN-SPAM act is up to $53,088 per email. So, no the worst thing that can happen to you if you're really unlucky is to die penniless after being sued into oblivious for operating a spam operation.

Before the worst happens, it's getting increasingly more likely that your domain will end up in a blacklist at Gmail, Yahoo, or Outlook, for which there is no formal appeal process. All that would require would somebody hacking your domain, and sending spam, or just sharing an ip address with a spammer.

That's before we get into the things that you're already lost: time and effort maintaining the system, which I have not.

Anyway, I was just being polite, but since you're incapable of doing so, and need to resort to ad homenium attacks, I think we're done here.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 hours ago

You're assuming I'm using my domain to send spam or am operating the e-mail server myself. That's a pretty wild assumption.

Further, I don't live in the US nor do I have assets in the US, so that act means shit for me.

You can pay a company that hosts e-mail to do it for you, and pretty cheap too.

Which I do.

Like the registar, one can change that provider too, and if do that I get to take the e-mail address with me as well as all my e-mails (all data is fully exportable), unlike with Google were the e-mail address is theirs, not yours.

Try again.