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?
I just setup a gmail account, just gotta turn on legacy smtp
This is the easiest way to do it.
I use mailgun. They give 1000 emails for free monthly which is plenty for me.
Guys, we are on r/selfhosted, and all the top replies are recommending cloud services? The actual fuck. I personally host my own postal server and it works great.
Postfix installed on the server itself. My apps don’t send many emails, why go through the complication and cost of hosting email externally?
Started using Purelymail. Easy setup with my multiple domains. Really cheap.
AWS SES or Hetzner (where my mail id also hosted)
Mailtrap
gmail with separate account than primary one
Amazon SES. My monthly bills are between 3 and 8 cents per month
How did you guys get approved on Amazon SES? My application was instantly rejected when I specified it for outbound emails.
I’m noob here, how to setup spam filters while trying to receive emails
First set up spam filters, then send emails. Both at the same time isn’t very convenient.
Gmail
Same, set up a separate email that I use exclusively for services. Did this as if the app password is hacked, they have access to an account with nothing but notifications.
Docker Mail Server
All you need is a static IP address, a DNS record, a PTR record, an SPF record, and a DKIM record. See, it’s simple, right?
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?
Because it would be overrun with phishing abuse in a matter of minutes?
Send grid has no approval process and will give you 100/day for free
Sendgrid
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.
