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What service do you use to send emails from your self hosted apps? I haven't been having luck getting approved. (alien.top)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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How are people sending emails from their self hosted apps? I Thought MailSender would be good but i guess not. Im about to try SendPulse now. Why isnt there a service that doesnt care what you do with your emails as long as you only sending max a few emails a day?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Seconding everyone suggesting to just use a Gmail account.

But to add to that, I created a small VM running Postfix that is an open relay that sends mail via that Gmail account. This way, I can use the Postfix VM as the SMTP server for all the other services and I don't have to remember and sprinkle that Gmail password all over the place.

Postfix's main.cf can be secured by configuring it to route all mail through that Gmail account, overwrite the 'from' address, and restrict the 'to' field to send only to myself and no other recipients. Then it doesn't matter what the 'from' of the various self-hosted services are, Postfix transforms the headers into something appropriate and sends it to Gmail to be delivered.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nothing at all.

I selfhost ntfy and services that only support email for notifications send them to ntfy smtp, then ntfy turns them into a push notification.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Apple mail

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Dedicated Gmail account.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Interesting to not have seen PostMark mentioned

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

.test internal domain, own postfix SMTP+dovecot IMAP server.

The IMAP server is accessible from WAN via IMAPS (HAproxy+SSL/letsencrypt certificate).

As per securing against brute force attacks:

  • Dovecot has a listener process configured to talk the HAproxy's specific PROXY protocol which passes the original client IP to Dovecot, so the latter can apply its own authentication penalty algorithm

  • Crowdsec is installed with the HAproxy plugin, so client IPs can also be banned after authentication errors, albeit I'm not sure this works with HAproxy's PROXY protocol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Gmail

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Mailjet. Free for 6000 emails/mo, which for me is plenty to cover backup notification, monitoring system notifications, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Check if your ISP has an SMTP service. I use mine for alerting when stuff breaks and haven't had any issues. If you use your own domain name and have trouble with delivery, you could try setting up SPF.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

gmail with an app specific password.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

https://mail.baby/

Very cheap and reliable.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Emails? Emails? I don't need no stinkin' emails.

Apologies to treasure of the sierra madres.

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