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submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's a bad title, but I'm trying to figure out how to describe what I want.

First, I got my photoprism working thru cloudflare. Now, on the same domain I would like an email address.

So mysite.com gets routed to 56.654.234.12 let's say by cloudflare such that a global user never sees my ip. But mail.mysite.com that's different, they don't proxy email so if you do a reverse lookup you can find the origin IP.

I heard about tunnels so I stupidly signed up for that, only to learn that a tunnel just lets you into an internal network. So an SMTP server can't get emails from outside that way.

Ideally, somehow I could setup one user at Gmail or proton mail, then somehow setup the same or different [email protected] and I could then use mailu, mailcow, mail docker to house my [email protected] which routes mail thru Gmail or protonmail. I know all this makes little sense because I don't know the proper way, so that's my question for you smart people who have done this twice over. Could someone point me to the best way of setting up a local mail server that routes thru cloudflare but is not easily reverse looked up? Is that even a problem at all?

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

It's an easy fix, if I and everyone else can't setup our own servers safely, then why use email at all? Just stop using email and let Gmail add a few thousand more hoops...portggf, sspf, dkjg, Chddth, Chat-GPT. Whatever they want so it is super super "safe". The rest of us, are we stupid? What about this message? How come this is easy? Setup my own instance and bam I can talk to other people with very little spam I literally have to work to get any attention at all on the fediverse. Why isn't there a file/text sending app for the fediverse yet? Or maybe there's one and I just haven't seen it yet?