Except it doesn’t work to send an email to someone who I assume is important to you - “it’s a great experience”.

Isn’t that an argument for why you shouldn’t run your own mail server?

Well I just have to do the one more step of forwarding the SMTP to sendgrid or whatever and then it will be top notch. It hasn't been enough of a pain for me yet to do that next step. I just signal her instead of email.

> So I just can't email my mom. Other than that, a great experience.

You made the point.

Are you using IPv6 or IPv4 to send the emails? DigitalOcean apparently blocks port 25 outbound IPv6 access because whole ranges are getting blocked.

I'm doing IPv4. The discussion is here: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/is-anybody-...