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MHanak ,

I'd advice against it, aside from spam filters, and it being a general PITA, there is a chance your ISP will block any outgoing mail traffic (in my case orange blocks it)

Humorless4483 OP ,

Which orange ? I’m with orange Belgium.

cvf ,

All you need is a local smtp server that relays to another, "real" smtp server. I have a postfix that is configured to use the Proton smtp servers (before that it was Googles). No issues on Telenet.

iarigby ,

This tool is for your use case. It comes with bonus privacy features like unique address for each service so they can’t cross track you

https://simplelogin.io/

smileyhead ,

SimpleLogin is for mail aliasing, not transactional mail.

bastion ,

Interesting how you use "simple" and "mail server" in the same sentence.

palarith , (edited )

You don’t need a mail server to send emails

Use an smtp smart host like smtp2go

ozzyrockin ,

+1 to this worked for me, only issue was they block common free emails (like gmails etc) from making accounts but porkbun made it super easy to make a email forward that worked!

vext01 ,
@vext01@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I self host my email. It was hard work to set up. 0/10. Would not come again.

roofuskit ,

I second this comment. It's been a long time since I set one up and it was a pain. And from what I can tell it's only gotten harder.

ErwinLottemann ,

i self host my mails for almost 20 years now, it was hard work in the beginning, now it's just a few updates a year. no problem with blacklists or anything, a good hoster is probably beneficial, 10/10 would recommend, even just to learn how all of this works

vext01 ,
@vext01@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

That's true. I did learn a lot, but the idea of setting it all up again gives me anxiety.

deafboy ,
@deafboy@lemmy.world avatar

https://mailcow.email/

hperrin ,

This is a can of worms, but you’re probably looking for something like Postfix. Running your own mail server is complicated. You need to set up SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and make sure outbound traffic on port 25 isn’t blocked. You need to check if your IP is on any block lists. You can do that here:

https://mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx

merthyr1831 ,

don't.

just_another_person ,

You are asking for a world of pain here.

mypasswordis1234 ,
@mypasswordis1234@lemmy.world avatar

Please, just don't. It's pain in ass

Toes ,
@Toes@ani.social avatar

I found this docker option.

https://hub.docker.com/r/apache/james#!

Although it's pretty cheap to have someone else host it.

https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/emails/mail-hosting/

darklamer ,
@darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

As already mentioned several times, selfhosting a mail server is not recommended unless you're particularly interested in hosting a mail server, but with that said, you might find this project interesting:

https://maddy.email/

retro ,
@retro@infosec.pub avatar

If you need to throw in the towel on email self-hosting, don't be ashamed. Mail servers are one of the more difficult projects to run. If you do end up outsourcing this, I recommend SendGrid, it's reliable and free.

pcouy ,

Things have been going well for me, using docker-mailserver.

I followed the setup guide, did everything in the DKIM, DMARC and SPF documentation page. The initial setup required more involvement from me than your standard docker-compose self-hosting deployment, but I got no issues at all (for now, fingers crossed) after the initial setup : I never missed any inbound e-mails, and my outbound e-mails have not been rejected by any spam filter yet.

However, I agree with everyone else that you should not self-host an important contact address without proper redundancy/recovery mechanism in case anything goes wrong.

You should also understand that self-hosting an email address means you should never let your domain expire to prevent someone from receiving emails sent to you by registering your expired domain. This means you should probably not use a self-hosted e-mail to register any account on services that may outlive your self-hosted setup because e-mail is frequently used to send password reset links.

rutrum ,
@rutrum@lm.paradisus.day avatar

I used nixos-mailserver with success, and very little configuration. Most of it was dns, and thr guide walked me through it. You would have to a nixos box somewhere though. I spun one up on my vps for it.

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