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 ?

  • Wander@yiffit.netEnglish
    31·
    1 year ago

    I use external smtp and have had no problems over several versions.

    OP, please share your config.hjson (redacting all sensitive info)

    • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.meEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Working perfectly fine here as well. From the backend’s perspective, a relay or an external server shouldn’t be functionally different whatsoever.