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Although that 'open email system' isn't as open in practice, since most of the big providers aren't going to accept your email if you set up your own sender.

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For example which ones? For past few years I'm using Mail-in-a-Box hosted on soyoustart and can't remember any problems when sending mail to big providers. I only had to check that IP is not in spam lists initially and asked to remove it from one of them.

running email for 15+ years here, going with ditto.

many ppl get el-cheapo vps on a low-tier network, setup some new domain on a dirty IP without proper DNS records (PTR, MX, yadda), and then parrot this

emails not the easiest thing, but it's not impossible either

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