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SMTP Relay for monitoring - custom domain (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi there,

what SMTP relay's / services do you use or can recommend for sending monitoring alerts.

I'm running a few services, but mostly all my custom scripts, and tasks are configured to sent an e-mail if something goes "off-script". Before I used my gmail account - but I'm in the middle of migrating away, and my requirements have evolved.

I've searched but I haven't found anything good. Services like Mailgun, Mailtrap etc. are nice - but their bundle's are a bit much for my taste.

The service/ relay should meet the following requirements.

bring your own domain (use your own domain/ or sub-domains as sender address)
must have DKIM (anything else is not a serious service!)
support SMTP via TLS
support multiple SMTP clients, with each different credentials/ secrets
Allow custom header/ envelope changes

At the moment I'm looking at Amazon SES, because I don't expect a lot of messages (I had 3 alerts in the last 1,5 yrs).

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I am in the exact same boat. I just switched to Proton as it looked like they had these features right away. But it turns out you have to explain what you want to use smtp for before they allow you to generate tokens. Which is probably due to them attracting a high amount of scammers due to their really good privacy. So I can understand but it is a tad annoying. If you are willing to wait I'd give them a try. Their business plan is cheaper than googles and gives you a lot and they are open source.

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

Good to know, thank you. I looked into proton for my primary mail account, but I didn't think of it for that purpose.

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

Nevermind. After days of back and forth with them they said that they only have that feature available to big companies that have an account with them for a year or more, which is definitely annoying. I'm going to give Brevo a shot next, I heard someone mention them in a thread before about this. It looks like their free tier allows for 300 emails a day. I'll let you know how that goes if you are still looking.