I used zoho. $16/yr for mail.mydomain and myname@mydomain set up. Use groups to set up different streams/mailboxes for all the things (gitlab@/cloud@/admin@/etc). It's super easy to point things at.
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G suite account supports inbound and outbound relaying.
Sendgrid… you’d be well within the free tier.
.test internal domain, own postfix SMTP+dovecot IMAP server.
The IMAP server is accessible from WAN via IMAPS (HAproxy+SSL/letsencrypt certificate).
As per securing against brute force attacks:
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Dovecot has a listener process configured to talk the HAproxy's specific PROXY protocol which passes the original client IP to Dovecot, so the latter can apply its own authentication penalty algorithm
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Crowdsec is installed with the HAproxy plugin, so client IPs can also be banned after authentication errors, albeit I'm not sure this works with HAproxy's PROXY protocol
Mailjet. Free for 6000 emails/mo, which for me is plenty to cover backup notification, monitoring system notifications, etc.
Check if your ISP has an SMTP service. I use mine for alerting when stuff breaks and haven't had any issues. If you use your own domain name and have trouble with delivery, you could try setting up SPF.
MailJet
Nothing at all.
I selfhost ntfy and services that only support email for notifications send them to ntfy smtp, then ntfy turns them into a push notification.
Strato
Are you sending lots of mails to a large group of users. If not why not use any normal e-mail service like gmail?
Sendgrid, Sparkpost, SES, plain gmail.
If you're only sending emails to yourself, gmail works well with no cost.
Delegating mail to an external service means you're not self hosting it.
Sending email is something you can just do. There's no need for an external service unless:
- You're trying to deliver email to external users.
- You really need your email to get through without ending up in people's spam folder.
Emails? Emails? I don't need no stinkin' emails.
Apologies to treasure of the sierra madres.