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One of the things I don't really want to self host is a mail server, especially for outbound mail. Currently I'm using a Gmail account, but I want to change that.

What do you all use for things like notifications sent through smtp?

I'm leaning towards AWS SES since it's cheap, but I know there are some other options like mailgun and sendgrid.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I set up a smtp relay with gsuite for outgoing mail but don't think it is ideal; it is tied to my user. It was just expedient rather than preferred.

Totally looking forward to the answers here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's pretty much my concern as well. Most of my notifications (lemmy/etc) get sent from a gsuite account or a fastmail account. I don't really want any automated e-mails being tied to my personal accounts like that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

With my one user gsuite I setup a secondary domain in it so lemmy sends from [email protected], not my main address, but lemmy still authenticates using my main address.