<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>My experience has been the same. We were blacklisted at least once but no more than three times, and it's been years since. I remember one of the things we needed to do was get our DNS all correct with reverse resolve on the IP address and long TTL values. And, of course, make sure no one is relaying spam through your server!<br>Scott<div><br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Ben Coleman" <oloryn@benshome.net><br><b>To: </b>ale@ale.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, November 15, 2016 4:25:40 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ale] Why Run your own email server?<br><br>On 9/29/2016 01:21 PM, George P. Burdell wrote:<br>> Anybody who has actually run their own mail servers for a while knows<br>> how much of a tremendous chore it is just to keep your mail from being<br>> blacklisted.<br><br>Actually, I've run my own mail server for 15 years, and if I ever had to<br>deal with blacklisting, it's been years since. I keep an eye out, just<br>in case, but it certainly hasn't been a tremendous chore.<br><br>Ben<br>-- <br>Ben Coleman oloryn@benshome.net | For the wise man, doing right trumps<br>http://oloryn.benshome.net/ | looking right. For the fool, looking<br>Amateur Radio NJ8J | right trumps doing right.<br><br></div></div></div></body></html>