Nextcloud, Qbittorrent, Truenas and loads of other svcs take optional email credentials for sending alerts and other features (eg. password recovery for nextcloud).
What email providers do people usually use to make this process simple to set up? For example, Microsoft doesn’t allow basic auth anymore so it’s supposedly not possible to use via most of these setups, and some other services seem like they have a low inbox size (does this matter?)
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Self hosted ntfy and mailrise. Mailrise is a wrapper for apprise that let’s you send emails to it and in turn converts the email to the desired push alert.
For password resets or account creation welcome emails I’d use a SMTP service. I use SMTP2GO for those. Free plan is something 1000 emails a month. I’ve been using them for a year and think I’ve sent maybe 5 or 10 emails.
PurelyMail is what I use. It’s been great so far. I’ve been using it for over a year for this exact use case.
They rock.I’m sometimes afraid they will be bought or change terms.
Seconded on Purelymail.
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!
FastMail is nice.
or (I don’t recommend it) you could learn to:
Email is like, the worst possible option. Check out Apprise. Super easy to setup Telegram or Discord notifications via webhooks. Takes like a minute.
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.
Install dovecot and set up your email client to connect to it. Email is trivial if you’re not sending to other hosts.
I use SMTP2GO (with my own domain) with the free plan (1000 email per month) that’s way over a selfhoster needs.
Find out if your ISP provides an SMTP smarthost.
Worth noting that in Finland they are also by law required to log metadata of delivered mails.
I’m using smtp gotify , been using it for a while now and it seems OK for alerts and outer features
I use docker-mail-server
Mailrise combined with an apprise notifier of your choice (I use gotify).
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
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.
Stalwart mail
