Hi, I just installed my instance with Ansible.

Now following this doc to check if email is set up correctly. However I didn’t receive an email to reset the password.

I doubled checked that I have email in my account settings. Used telnet localhost 25 to verify the hostname is my domain.

What am I missing?

  • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Yes, sure, self-hosting email can go fine for a long time, depending on the amount of users that you have and what your users do (For example : try bulk email) and whom they want to email with, or send emails to mailing lists, or use email forwarding. The OP wants to run a Lemmy instance and have email out working, probably just for notifications. Using a transactional email provider for the latter seems like a sensible choice to me.