I am trying to setup my own lemmy server. I used ansible.

I can access my server via my domain just fine. But emails are not working.

First i had my mail and mx records pointing to privateemail via namecheap.

Then i tried using cloudflare email routing and their mx records.

neither worked for me with error connecting.

I thought maybe using dovecot? But self hosting email is new to me

I was hoping to use namecheaps privateemail but wasn’t sure how to get it working.

The email account worked and can send / receive but Lemmy and postfix cannot communicate with it.

Now I have no Mx records as I’m not sure what I should be using I am sure I am missing something obvious but idk what

Any ideas ?

  • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
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    1 year ago

    Working perfectly fine here as well. From the backend’s perspective, a relay or an external server shouldn’t be functionally different whatsoever.

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        1 year ago

        That really should work, I would check for potential firewall issues or something.

        Mine is basically identical to yours:

        email: {
            smtp_server: "mail.h.max-p.me:465"
            smtp_login: "[email protected]"
            smtp_password: "REDACTED"
            smtp_from_address: "[email protected]"
            tls_type: "tls"
          }
        

        It’s possible your server is slightly misconfigured and actually serve plain traffic on 465 and requires the use of the STARTTLS command.

        Can you reach your server with openssl?

        openssl s_client -connect smtp.domain.de:465
        

        This should end up with something like that:

            Start Time: 1688422790
            Timeout   : 7200 (sec)
            Verify return code: 0 (ok)
            Extended master secret: no
            Max Early Data: 0
        ---
        read R BLOCK
        220 hosting.max-p.me ESMTP Postfix