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One of the things I don't really want to self host is a mail server, especially for outbound mail. Currently I'm using a Gmail account, but I want to change that.

What do you all use for things like notifications sent through smtp?

I'm leaning towards AWS SES since it's cheap, but I know there are some other options like mailgun and sendgrid.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I actually setup SES for my Lemmy instance. I was evaluating SendGrid but less than 24 hours after signing up they closed my account with zero explanation so...yeah lol.

I was sandboxed in SES initially but I created a support ticket asking for production access and I was good to go. No issues with SES thus far.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lucky SES rejected my request lol

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah seems like they are pretty strict on what you are doing, i assume not having a business on the account affects it too. Maybe depends on who you get to reply to your ticket as well lol