Announcing Cyniva Email Hosting

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

For the last couple of years I ran my own mail server. Postfix and Dovecot on a little VPS, full-service mail servers like Mailcow and Stalwart, etc. It started as a learning project and it genuinely was one, but what I didn’t expect was how much of it turned into ongoing maintenance. Running email yourself quickly becomes a full time job.

Here’s the short version of what that actually involves.

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Getting mail to send is easy. Getting it to land in someone’s inbox instead of their spam folder is the hard part, and it never really ends. You sort out your SPF and DKIM records, add a DMARC policy, figure you’re in good shape. Then Gmail decides your IP looks a little new and quietly routes you to spam for a month while it makes up its mind about you. You can’t even see it happening. The mail just vanishes into a folder nobody checks.

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Announcing Cyniva Email Hosting

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