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The domain wasn’t that old but I don’t think that was the issue. I’m pretty sure it was about the age of the DMARC DNS record.

IIRC you must create an SSL keypair, give the keys to the SMTP server, and encode public key in a of DNS record. But way more Byzantine.

I’ve seen SMTP servers self hosted alongside WordPress just for sending invite emails. There’s definitely some openssl keygen and DNS magic that needs to happen. Then it took almost a month before email sending really worked. There was a while where it would show up in spam for most recipients while gmail would flat out ignore it.

If you’re not scared of the openssl/DNS magic and are willing to let it sit for months before actually migrating then yes.

Bring a whole fresh pack of the good stuff to work and stock all the toilets. Do it once but never again.

This is the correct answer. At most they do think you like it. “Its just a compliment” etc.