Hey all I have no idea what I’m doing here trying to set up a Lemmy instance. I’ve made simple servers before but nothing like the setup needed for this especially surrounding email verification.
I’m like 10 tutorials deep and on day 3 of trying to figure out what is going on with Postfix. There are so many words and acronyms being thrown around I don’t even know what I’m looking at anymore let alone knowing what the right questions to ask would be.
Very likely I’m going to nuke my droplet this weekend to make sure I have a fresh start with no half-baked solutions competing with each other. Would someone be willing to set up a time with me this weekend on Discord or something and baby step me through how to get this thing up and running?
You can use lots of email providers, even gmail, and authenticate with their SMTP server to send messages. Sending unsolicited email directly to another mail server will 100% cause it to become spam. There are 30 years of anti-spam ‘webs-of-trust’ and now validating technologies that, if you don’t setup, will guarantee your emails do not get delivered.