Post #4840451 · Elektrine

2026-09-17 18:04 UTC

Email for self hosted services? (Not personal email) Several of my self hosted services need to be able to send minor occasional emails for things like changing passwords or other notifications. I’ve never been interested in the hassle of self-hosting my personal email, since I’ve heard about it being difficult. But for my little local services to have one admin@ or noreply@ to send from, with just a small handful of friends and family as users, maybe it’s simpler than a full personal email replacement would be? I’m not too concerned, for example, if they have to check their spam folders. As long as the email still lands. And probably wouldn’t need to worry about incoming emails. What are you using for this type of thing? Hoping to have something not too complicated, and FOSS. Edit: I also would like it to come from ____@mydomain.com

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@Dirk@lemmy.ml 2026-09-18 03:51

What are you using for this type of thing? I just created a send-only mailbox in the account I already have at my hosting service and use this in all my services. I’m not going to set up a mail server and deal with all the security issues and problems with private dial-up IP addresses myself. Been there, done that. Wasn’t fun.

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@i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-09-17 20:42

I verified my domain with Proton and I can send mails from my domain through their servers and pass all sender verification and reputation tests. This works without needing to control a public IP in a range that is allowed to send mail to the common mail services.

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@Evotech@lemmy.world 2026-09-19 07:07

I just use protonmail. You can set up different accounts smtp providers for your different services

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@deffard@lemmy.world 2026-09-19 07:36

I picked zoho.com free tier, with an eu.org domain after scanning through a set of different options. No marketing appended to emails and only throttles on excessive sending instead of hard limits. Each service sends from its own address. purelymail.com was my backup paid option if the free plans were no good, with the advanced pricing and low usage the cost would be miniscule.

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