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I just read through the comment section of this article and, as someone who is planning to host my own email, it is really demotivating me.

Do you (or anyone) happen to know how the big players (AWS SES, SendGrid, Mandrill etc) work around this issue? I understand they offer dedicated IP address, but I suppose a considerable amount of their emails goes through the "shared pool".

Maybe a high volume of sends actually helps?

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I believe they are simply "too big to fail". If you start blocking AWS, lots of people will have problems with Google. As a result, mail sending services are unlikely to be flagged.

> as someone who is planning to host my own email, it is really demotivating me.

The good thing is, I've hosted emails on my personal server for 4 years or so, and I don't have any issue so far, as long as it's not Google, but it's probably not so assuring to you because of this exact reason...

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