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bertlewirth@lemmy.world 10 hours agoWell, it’s a good learning experience. But…… don’t. Good luck getting around the major email providers’ smart screen shit. It’s probably not gonna happen. I tried a few years ago, and even microslop couldn’t figure out why their shit screen crap wouldn’t allow my emails. But it’s worth doing it in the short term to learn how to do it.
Dultas@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Yeah, email is one of the more annoying things to self host. Google rejects mine because my ISP has all their non static IPs on block lists (even though my IP hasn’t changed once since I’ve been with them it’s still not “static”, can’t change the reverse DNS) and I’m not paying 150% more a month for a business account to get a static IP. I ended up just using a free email relay. Still had to setup SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and all that jazz still.
bertlewirth@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Yup. It’s so damn annoying email. Do it once to learn, but don’t do it as a permanent solution. It takes so much maintenance to keep it going, if you even do get it working.
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
What maintenance do you mean? run OS updates and pay the vps bill. that’s true for any self hosted application. which specific maintenance are you referring to?
frongt@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
Setting up the newfangled security thing. TLS, DKIM, DMARC, SPF are the big ones over the years. Finding out you’ve been silently blackisted by a provider and hoping and praying they’ll answer your request to unblock. Managing your own spam filter.