Joshix@fosspri.detoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•[QUESTION] How do instances that use platforms such as Lemmy send verification, password reset, etc. e-mails? Do they use SMTP or some external service that provides an API?
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6 months ago@Asudox my mastodon connects with smtp to a locally running sendmail which then forwards the messages signed with dkim
@Asudox once I set it up *correctly* I didn’t have problems yet
But big email providers like google like to not deliver emails if you do stuff wrong. I’m not self-hosting for my personal email stuff, but I didn’t want to pay or put my email pw on my server, so I had no choice (i could’ve created a new email account, but i didn’t want to put a 3rd party in the middle)