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tempting but my understanding is hosting your own email means nobody will accept what you send and its constantly going to be attacked. I dont really have the chops to beat back that kind of thing.
You are talking about reputation management which is not as big a deal as you might think.
Email is a simple system but there are a lot of things at work to prevent (more like reduce) spam.
Some DNS knowledge and some friendly emails to a few abuse @ addresses and a few months of quiet reputation building and you are set.
Add a few weeks of rspamd training and you won't see much spam either.