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Self-hosted Email Server
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Here is a guide that I found helpful when setting up my email server: https://workaround.org/ispmail-bookworm/whats-new/
It allows for multiple aliases and domains. Has spam blocking and uses both postfix and dovecot for handling the mail.
Vultr blocks outgoing port 25 so you'll have to ask support for it to be opened.
Test your residential IP by connecting to smtp/imap servers using telnet.