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

submitted 1 year ago by thejoker8814@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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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[-] somedaysoon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I know this doesn't fit your criterea OP, but if anyone else is looking for some kind of notification service, I use: SMTP to Telegram

I get instantly notified on my phone for healthchecks.io failures, cronjob reports for different scripts like borg backups or ddns update failures, certain Home Assistant scripts, and Sonarr completions so I know when a new TV episode is done downloading, and a bunch of other things set to notify on failure like SMART failures or snapraid-runner failures or distro updates... so many things. It's nice having peace of mind that if I haven't been notified that something is wrong, then I know everything is working, and I do not need to check on it. So it's one of my favorite services that I'm running.

I don't think I need to say it, but this is obviously not something you would put facing WAN as there is no TLS nor authentication.

[-] leaf@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

For everything else you have SMTP to Apprise

[-] somedaysoon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That looks very nice, gives a lot more options which I love so I will have to look into it.

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