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All this new excitement with Lemmy and federation has got me thinking that maybe I should learn to run my own instance. What always comes up though is how email is the orginal federated technology.

I am looking at proxmox and see that is has a built in email server, so now I am wondering if it is time to role my own.

I stopped using gmail a long time ago, and right now I use ProtonMail, but I am super frustrated with the dumb limitation of only having a single account for the app. I get why they do it, and I am willing to pay, but it is pricey and I don't know if that is my best option. I guess it is worth it since ProtonVPN is included. It looks like they are expanding their suite.

Is it worth it? Can I make it secure? Is it stupid to run it off a local computer on my home network?

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[–] Malin@omg.qa 9 points 2 years ago (13 children)

Yes, with mailcow.email and a catchall and random email system with Anonaddy.

[–] DidacticDumbass@lemmy.one 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Thank you for the leads! I have a lot of research to do.

[–] chewbakartik@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

I am also using mailcow to host my own email server, and it's pretty fantastic. One thing that I wanted to note, because as many people have mentioned, the actual sending of emails is a real pain, and hard for anyone that isn't a major player to not be blacklisted. I am utilizing PostmarkApp as my SMTP provider. They are a leader in transactional sending of emails from applications. For a relatively small subscription fee, you can configure mailcow to use Postmark (or a similar service) to send your emails with higher success rates.

You can do some research on providers that have good track records for sending out transactional emails from applications (geared towards programmers) and test it out. I believe that AWS also has a service that's usable.

The really nice thing about this setup is that it's inexpensive and easy to have multiple domains with multiple mailboxes on each, compartmentalized, and not have to worry about your outgoing mail being rejected.

[–] fuser@quex.cc 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

AWS has Simple Email Service (SES) which works, although it's annoying to have to resort to a corporate service for outgoing mail just to make sure it's delivered. Reliable delivery to every recipient when sending directly from a small mail server seems practically impossible nowadays.

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