ArborNode

@ArborNode@lemmy.shutes.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is POP email still a thing?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The difficulty of self hosting your own email is high, but if you aim to do it, i would recommend Stalwart for self hosting. POP is not what you want as other people are saying. There is also a newer protocal to IMAP called JMAP.

  Some things to consider are your inbound and outbound mail paths.

  For incoming: Do you have a VPS to be your entry point? Or do you plan to port forward (assuming you even can given the prevalence of CGNAT)? There is also a way to teach a web worker like the kind cloudflare let’s you use for free to break the email down and POST it to a listener in your server across a tunnel and the listener can put it back together into an email at your server and drop it off. That being the only way I have found to get inbound mail behind a double NAT (CGNAT) without a VPS.

  For outbound, if you send stuff to major SMTP providers from a residential IP they will block it or mark as spam pretty heavily. You may want to consider a relay to make sure people actually see what you send. Brevo has a free tier, SMTP2Go is solid. There are others as well.

  There are other considerations like how will the end user interact with the mail server? I host a Bulwark instance and really love what they are doing with the project, but there are quite a few options for that.

  If you end up giving it a go, good luck, and know that it is possible!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what is a good self hostable alternative to facebook messenger⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Continuwuity is so easy the setup and maintain. If you want to self host a matrix server, I couldn’t recommend this enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what is a good self hostable alternative to facebook messenger⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the clients are all better lately. For Android I prefer Schildi Chat Next. For most everything else we use my self hosted Cinny web app. My only iPhone user likes elementX. Fluffy Chat is solid for messaging only, but I did not like that it can’t do the voice and video calls. They may have added that by now, I’m not an expert.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self hosting as a gift⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I run a self hosted server for my household and my family gets a lot out of it. I’m not quite sure I’d consider it a gift as much as I do a way to save money and have more privacy and control. To be more blunt, I do not expect my wife would feel happy with me telling her it is a “gift” for her as it is clearly a hobby of mine.

  For your question on OS, truenas scale has worked really well for me. If you have comfort running Debian server, that’s a great way to go as well. I think truenas scale would fit you well for one of your specific notes, “Having a simple container interface for future features like homeassistant and jellyfin et al is great too.” I love how easy my containers are to work on and maintain in truenas.

  Ultimately, I think you should spin up every OS you are considering and look around first. It would only take a few hours of your time and it’s a very personal choice to a certain degree.