{"id":232,"date":"2025-07-30T15:17:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T19:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tocobee.com\/?p=232"},"modified":"2025-07-30T15:17:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T19:17:58","slug":"journal-of-bringing-a-lightweight-personal-mail-server-back-to-life-after-ip-blacklisting-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tocobee.com\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"Journal of Bringing a Lightweight Personal Mail Server Back to Life After IP Blacklisting \u2013 Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After experimenting with SMTP2GO, I felt more confident using relay mail services. It worked well overall, but the pricing became less ideal when sending over 1,000 emails per month.<\/p>\n<p>So, I set out to find a more affordable SMTP relay solution\u2014and that led me to <strong><button type=\"button\" data-url=\"https:\/\/MXroute.com\">MXroute.com<\/button><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udee0\ufe0f <strong>MXroute BF2024 Medium Plan ($30 USD \/ every 3 years)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Storage:<\/strong> 25GB<\/li>\n<li><strong>Domains:<\/strong> Unlimited<\/li>\n<li><strong>Email Accounts:<\/strong> Unlimited<\/li>\n<li><strong>Outbound Limit:<\/strong> 400 emails\/hour per address<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not bad, right? I decided to give it a shot.<\/p>\n<p>I configured my MX records to route incoming mail to my own mail server, so 25GB of storage is more than enough for my needs.<\/p>\n<p>The unlimited domains and email accounts are especially useful for managing multiple servers or blogs.<\/p>\n<p>Unless the company disappears or something drastic happens, I see myself sticking with MXroute long-term. And who knows\u2014maybe I\u2019ll upgrade to their lifetime deal someday \ud83d\ude04<\/p>\n<p>I highly recommend MXroute to small bloggers or anyone running their own mail server and struggling with delivery issues. Their SMTP relay service might just be your game-changer.<\/p>\n<p>So for now\u2026 the journal of my mail server&#8217;s rebirth comes to a temporary close.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After experimenting with SMTP2GO, I felt more confident using relay mail services. It worked well overall, but the pricing became less ideal when sending over 1,000 emails per month. So, I set out to find a more affordable SMTP relay solution\u2014and that led me to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tocobee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tocobee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tocobee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tocobee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tocobee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tocobee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"https:\/\/www.tocobee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tocobee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tocobee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tocobee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}