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		incompatible on April 27, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Is Eating Our Mail Surely someone has to run their own SMTP servers, or there won't be any SMTP servers. So how is it decided who can run SMTP servers and who can not, and is this a good method?

throwaway2048 on April 27, 2019 [–]

What the message here is that you, a non-connected nobody, shouldn't try to host it, because they will reject your mail.

This gets couched in it being "hard" like somehow its an insurmountable force of nature.

It isn't.

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