Virtual server host with reasonable mail policies?

[Ken D'Ambrosio]

On 2022-12-30 17:04, Ted Roche wrote:
> MS escalation and delisting is useless. I've had to hop IP addresses a
> couple of times (which Linode support is awesome about!) but it's a
> hassle. At this point, I don't want to abandon Linode after 15 years
> of sterling service, but I may have to route outgoing email through
> yet another (paid) service to get the mail delivered.

I had this same problem with DO.  I actually have not one, but _two_ VMs 
"out there," DO for $5/mo., and this other one -- I honestly don't even 
remember the vendor, but I can look if anyone's interested -- for 
something like 20 Euros a quarter or something.  It's a relatively 
unknown vendor, I think, but the box is in Canada, so my latency isn't 
horrible, and it's got a big disk, so I can store stuffs there (e.g., my 
~35 year-old mailbox is beginning to approach even the generous 25 GB on 
DO).  It does my primary job -- secondary DNS -- just fine, as well as a 
few other things, but ALSO, by dint of, presumably, being relatively 
unknown, is where I've had Postfix route my MS-bound e-mail.  It Just 
Works(tm).  Assuming static IPs, I'd happily relay for either/both of 
you, if you're interested.
And, yeah -- there are exactly zero guarantees that MS won't start 
rejecting e-mail from that host tomorrow, but so far, it's been ~5 
years, and working fine.  [Sidebar: I _think_ it's working fine.  It's 
been a while since I've had need to mail an 
MS/outlook.com/hotmail.com/etc. address.]

-Ken