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[Solved] What do I need to setup for an email-proxy? (programming.dev)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by onlinepersona@programming.dev to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Solution: FetchMail + Dovecot. Just need to set it up, but it's pretty much what I was looking for.

The goal is to allow easily moving away from an email provider e.g from protonmail to tutanota or fastmail or whatever. How do people achieve this?

I just want to have myname@mydomain, the emails to go to whichever managed email service that allows it, and to then grab everything from that service with POP to then self-host a proxy that multiple devices can connect to. STMP can go either to my hosted server or the managed host, doesn't matter.

The idea is explicitly not to do the job of a managed email service. No DKIM, no SPF, no DMARC, none of that.

Distro is NixOS, but can adapt any instructions given. Mentioning just in case somebody already has a nix configuration with this setup.

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[–] SteveTech@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oracle Cloud has their Email Delivery service, which is basically just a straight SMTP proxy, and it's free. I believe proxies still need to be configured as a sender in SPF and have their own DKIM signing key, but Oracle will still send without them, although wildcard senders will require them.

[–] IratePirate@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

This does, however, mean, you're running all of your emails through an oligarch-owned company and is hardly "self-hosted", right?

[–] SteveTech@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago

True, but it's only the sending emails and I don't have to worry about getting my ISP to set PTR records just to pass spam filters. Your domain's MX records still point to your server.