hey #mastoadmins is there any reason why I shouldn't self-host Mastodon email? just the outgoing stuff Masto produces
@noiob you can totally do it but be prepared to tell users they need to check their spam folder for a few months to a year
@halcy nah fuck that
@noiob (i.w uses selfhosted mail and it mostly arrives fine these days, even for google. It just takes a while until servers decide you’re a good citizen. If you previously had mailgun or whatever and sent plenty of mail that didn’t ger flagged spam, maybe it’s shorter, who knows.)
@halcy we're using Mailgun right now, is that different?
@halcy oh right they probably come from Mailgun's servers but just pretend they're from awoo.space
@noiob yeah, you presumably have them set as your MX (i.e. DNS is set to say „mail for awoo comes from and goes to here“). If you change to selfhosted, that the domain has a good track record MAY help even when the IP has not, but Who Knows Spam Filters Are Weird.
@noiob (also one smaller reason not to do it is email in general is kind of a pain to set up and there’s spf and dkim and whatever that you gotta take care of. None of that is hard, it‘s just a lot of stuff.)
@halcy yeah paying like a dollar per month for mailgun is sounding a lot more reasonable
@noiob The only reason I'm not doing that is because my web host turns out to be a vector for spam and a lot of people block its IP addresses -_-