I use mailgun. They give 1000 emails for free monthly which is plenty for me.
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Postfix installed on the server itself. My apps don't send many emails, why go through the complication and cost of hosting email externally?
Gmail
Same, set up a separate email that I use exclusively for services. Did this as if the app password is hacked, they have access to an account with nothing but notifications.
Started using Purelymail. Easy setup with my multiple domains. Really cheap.
Docker Mail Server
All you need is a static IP address, a DNS record, a PTR record, an SPF record, and a DKIM record. See, it's simple, right?
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?
Because it would be overrun with phishing abuse in a matter of minutes?
AWS SES or Hetzner (where my mail id also hosted)
Guys, we are on r/selfhosted, and all the top replies are recommending cloud services? The actual fuck. I personally host my own postal server and it works great.
Amazon SES. My monthly bills are between 3 and 8 cents per month
I'm noob here, how to setup spam filters while trying to receive emails
First set up spam filters, then send emails. Both at the same time isn't very convenient.
How did you guys get approved on Amazon SES? My application was instantly rejected when I specified it for outbound emails.
gmail with separate account than primary one
Send grid has no approval process and will give you 100/day for free
Mailtrap
Sendgrid
I use Fastmail with a specific domain and/or aliases to separate it easily by rules as needed. But I do pay for Fastmail and only send emails to myself so may or may not be applicable to you.
I do the same. I like how each application gets its own password and only gets the permissions I want to give it (usually just smtp)
The SMTP relay that comes with my M365 tenant.
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.
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.
So literally everyone actually using email.
No.
Having a couple emails end up in spam boxes isn't that big a deal for many self-hosted app scenarios.
For example, if you have a limited set of users, the setup process can involve getting an email and marking it not spam.
i personally found SendGrid easy to setup and cost effective
PurelyMail
Sendgrid… you’d be well within the free tier.
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.
G suite account supports inbound and outbound relaying.
I have secondary gmail account just for that.
Gmail
I pay $7 for a noreply user in my business starter Google workspace.
I use fastmail. Since I'm already paying for it as my normal email service, I started using it as my incomming and outgoing email provider for seldhosted apps. Works fine, no complaints.
A VPS with Mailcow.
Gmail with app specific password + Postfix docker container loganmarchione/docker-postfixrelay. I configure gmail in one spot (the container) and everything else connects to that container to relay out. You can easily limit destination email addresses with the container as well, so you don’t have to worry about an app going rogue.
Dedicated Gmail account.
Are there any third party services that don't require phone numbers for sign-ups?
mxroute
they have a bf sale right now
Where?
mxroute?
Their sale in on their site
Mailrise + pushover
Apple mail
I was using mailgun, but they recently fucked me, so I switched everything to Brevo.
Interesting to not have seen PostMark mentioned
I got a Black Friday special at MXRoute a few years ago - $15 for the year.
Host whatever domains you want then for email.
Might get a bargain again this year if they do Black Fridays
I use duocircle.com, allows.dkim and spf. 1,000 per month for free. Gives a warning at 800 and 900 - helpful when I have a process run a little amok.
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.
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