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If there's any interest in this, I can host an email server. #13 and #15 must be resolved first, and even then, I don't trust exozyme's uptime enough to actually use it as my main email.
This is a huge pain and not worth it in my opinion. Going to tag it as wontfix for now unless people are interested in hosting an email server.
Closing this for now since I don't imagine us doing this anytime soon.
Reopening because we now run the server all day. I still wouldn't trust using an exozyme email server for anything important because we sometimes have outages.
If we're going to do this, let's definitely set it up with Podman and an email server container, since I don't want to spend 5+ hours to get this to work.
It'd be really cool if we could get this set up, but I'd personally be too scared of using it since our uptime is not the best (but I'm working on improving it!)
Another alternative could be to use a paid ProtonMail or another email provider plan so we don't have to go through the pain of hosting it ourselves.
I really want to find a better solution for our email system, since right now we use a combination of SendGrid, Forward Email, and ProtonMail. I'm leaning towards the side of using a hosted email provider instead of doing it ourselves which would be brain damage.
There's an unoffical free SMTP bridge for ProtonMail so we could try using that.
The boring option is to mark this as wontfix and just use our current setup. SendGrid has 100 free emails per day and I doubt we'll hit that limit.
TBH we shouldn't "fix" something that's not broken and our current setup works perfectly fine. Closing for now, please reopen if you have other thoughts.
I would be interested in an email server. I do only have one question: What would happen if someone would send me an email during a server outage? Is the email lost or will it be resent later?
I think SMTP requires the other email server to retry sending the email for a up to a few hours.
Anyways, hosting an email server requires a crap ton of work, so I'll look into it later when I'm less busy.
I might try using Nix to host the email server (instead of Podman, which is what I originally planned on doing).
Another roadblock: I will need to contact my ISP to add a reverse DNS record, and I'm not sure if they are a fan of self-hosting mail.
@codedotjs What are you interested in using the email server for?
If it works well I will probably use it as my primary email client.
Alright, sounds good. I wouldn't trust the server's uptime enough to personally use it for my primary email address. However, I've email forwarding set up so if you would like an @exozy.me email address I can easily do that.
Anyways, I'm pretty overloaded with several concurrent projects right now, but I'll keep this issue open and look into it in the future.
Closing because I don't think our current server setup (Arch Linux at my house) can reliably host an email server. If we actually want to do this in the future, we could perhaps use my VPS at MIT running a more stable OS like Debian or NixOS.