Email provider for home server alerts
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I know what a Commodore 64 is, brother. And you can ask all you want where to find that information. And I can keep telling you I don't know.
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Under things me and my users notice aren't working right away, at the top of the list is email. So I notice when those alerts aren't able to get through, because if email is down I have my phone ringing off the hook because my dad can't get to his online auctions to see if he won that toaster for $5. So email is like, the best option.
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I do this with my home network using FastMail. You can create App specific passwords for each service you add email notification support for. This means you don’t risk compromising your full accounts passwords. You can also put constraints on each app password, such as limiting it only to sending emails but not reading email or looking at your contacts and files. This is nice in case any of my passwords are leaked.
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I've been pretty lazy with this.
I used to use my hotmail account, but they disabled password auth for smtp and many programs dont support 0auth2.
With that change, I just moved to using gmail. You've gotta create an App Password for smtp, but other wise works fine.
I've just been too lazy to move out of gmail+hotmail. Maybe one day
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it’s easy to use, pretty damn reliable
Unfortunately not when you’re self hosting… Can’t rely on it when you’re supposed to receive an email (account validation, reset password email,…) which never arrives and you’re stuck clicking on « resend the email » on the website with no hope…
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I meant that the technology itself is reliable. And you can do self hosting just fine too, I've been doing it since 2010 or so, but running a local smarthost which sends messages via reputable SMTP provider works just fine too. Or even directly interacting with the SMTP provider from all the applications you're running.
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i use https://www.mailjet.com/ they gave a free tier that goes a long way for mails like that.
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Install dovecot and set up your email client to connect to it. Email is trivial if you're not sending to other hosts.
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It's not really that privacy friendly, but I use zoho. You can send emails free from aliases with your own domain name so I have emails coming from nextcloud@mydomain pve@mydomain etc.
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Seconded on Purelymail.
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smtp_to_telegram
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you can selectively mark mails as read that don't need attention anymore, and keep as unread those that do. how would you do that with ntfy, or messaging services? at most you can mark unread a whole topic or chatroom
and no, I don't want to make gitea issues for every single alert. (though.. why not?). it would be very fragile anyway I would assume
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they cannot block what is internal. google does not need to be aware of your internal activities anyway
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Similar idea, but a different service if you like gotify: https://github.com/tystuyfzand/gotify-smtp
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I use MXRoute, which is a similar tiny/one-person email service. Also great so far. I use it for personal stuff + a client's professional business emails, and haven't had any issues with either.
Supporting small businesses like these feels great!
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Mailrise combined with an apprise notifier of your choice (I use gotify).
