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What service do you use to send emails from your self hosted apps? I haven't been having luck getting approved. (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by RaiseRuntimeError@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum

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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?

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[–] idrac1966@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

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.