hosting mail

posted on February 25, 2025

as i wrote on the index, i stopped paying for proton after (1) i noticed it didnt bring many improvements over gmail and (2) went down multiple times, including a ~5h downtime like a week before my thing was about to renew

sooo yeah i guess now i don’t have an email provider for my domain mail!

i found mox which seems like a good program to have something that just works

issue is, most vps providers (mine included) don’t allow outbound port 25 connections (for smtp) soo i spent a few hours configuring something that doesn’t fully work lel

i can receive mail but i cannot send it. i guess i’ll email support and check if i can get the port opened (valued customer btw) by begging hard enough that i can be trusted with port 25 privileges :^)

btw inb4 comments, i already know self-hosting email is stupid but it’s for this blog so who cares, it’s fun.