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YSK: Signal is a great secure private messenger app comparable to others on the market.
  • As an iPhone user who most of the people I message are also iPhone users. I need sms to communicate with the 3 or 4 people who use android and they don’t have any other app for messaging.

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    [Help needed] issue self hosting lemmy and email smtp
  • Thank you to those that helped. As I figured I was being a noob and missing a key piece. Based off the instructions and my experience I didn’t realize I need to get a free or paid smtp service and point postfix to that server. Everything seems to be working now.

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    [Help needed] issue self hosting lemmy and email smtp
  • Oh I read plenty posts. I am no expert so not always easy for me to understand relating their experiences to mine.

    I was under the impression that postfix is all that was needed. And my config.hjson file is pointing to postfix. The issue that caused me to get confused and go down a very incorrect rabbit hole was that the postfix logs repeatedly error about connecting to my Mx record servers.

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  • 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 ?

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