Soooo. I’m dumb. I host my overseerr on my domain that just routes to my local IP for my local desktop. How do I get email on this domain without spending dumb money on an email hosting server?

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

PurelyMail is a great and cheap service. It's like $10 per year. You just set up some records (MX and TXT) on your domain provider and that's it.

You could also self-host email, but then you need a server that's always powered on and it adds much complexity, so I suggest to use a managed service instead.

The good thing about using your own domain is that you're not tied to any service. You could migrate to any other provider (such as ProtonMail, FastMail, etc.) without ever changing your email address on all services.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

This is a good idea. I got free domain routing to Gmail through the plagued Google apps system years ago. It's changed a bunch of times and is now workspaces and requires a monthly fee. I'm grandfathered in through original apps enrollment.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

It’s like $10 per year.

Okay, but now you're talking about $22/year and who even has that kind of money?

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago

Linux + postfix (SMTP) + dovecot (IMAP and POP3) + SPF + DKIM on the host

Point the MX record for your domain to your IP address

Contact your ISP and ask them to set the PTR record for your IP to your hostname

Mail can be handled by a very low end computer, a raspberry pi can handle email for a small number of users

If you have a specific mail machine you would forward the ports you use to that host on your router.

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