I have self-hosted my own emails many times. Up to having three SMTP servers with failsafe option at DNS.
It’s super nice, but I would never self-host SMTP again. It’s a nightmare. I had to email or open a ticket at most ISPs despite my clean IPs. Most ISPs simply blacklist all IPs unless they are major email providers already.
My advice is go for it but let SMTP be handled by who will deal with these frustrations. MXroute is a great choice and it’s cheap.
I can feel it. This is it. 2023 will be the year.
Thanks for this. Lazy me may even prefer it.
I use https://github.com/bastienwirtz/homer because it is dead simple to configure, and I protect it with HTTP auth at the reverse proxy level.
My instance is so far to browse Lemmy Fediverse. There are no local communities. It is for a bunch of friends only.
Does it make any damages if it doesn’t de-federate from these or other problematic instances? Genuine question.
In some cases outbound only, in other cases inbound, too, with redirect somewhere else. I’m not using them to store emails right now.
MXroute. First, because Jar is stupid (hope someone will get the reference). Second, because they are awesome and cheap at the same time. You can go from full-fledged hosting with them to using them as relay, and for pizza money for a year.
Perfect. Came here to post the very same, and I’m glad to see that it is planned. Really like the app so far, there’s significant improvements at each release.
You're welcome. And this one was immediate to appear!
In case nginx does not work out for you, you can opt for more generic reverse proxies. frp is my favorite one: https://github.com/fatedier/frp
See https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling