Distribution quotes of the week

I tried numerous times to even get the setup I wanted working with Postfix (despite following guides and whatnot). I hadn't even gotten to the SSL or other signing infra at that point. At this point, I'm on Fastmail. Not the greatest compromise given their jurisdiction, but it is way more featureful, has a sane IMAP interface (unlike gmail), and filtering on arbitrary headers is such a breath of fresh air after gmail's lackluster filtering capabilities. Oh, and the web interface isn't a dumpster fire, so there's that going for it too.

But nearly everyone I email is an input to the Google Data Vacuum anyways, so it's not like they'd actually care at all (and given my ad blocking, is probably just a net savings on their ad server CPU cycles anyways).

One problem I have with this setup is that some servers reject my e-Mails out of hand (T-Online, largest ISP in Germany, seems to only allow whitelisted servers) while Google Mail just sorts my e-Mail, at least on first contact, away as Spam - never mind the gobs of Spam I'm receiving from THEM. That system mostly seems reputation based, so I'm not sure how to solve this - I may just end up sending automated e-Mail to a few gmail addresses from time to time which really shouldn't be necessary...