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Email provider for home server alerts (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 day ago by merthyr1831@lemmy.ml to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Nextcloud, Qbittorrent, Truenas and loads of other svcs take optional email credentials for sending alerts and other features (eg. password recovery for nextcloud).

What email providers do people usually use to make this process simple to set up? For example, Microsoft doesn't allow basic auth anymore so it's supposedly not possible to use via most of these setups, and some other services seem like they have a low inbox size (does this matter?)

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[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Universiality, basically: almost everyone, everywhere has an email account, or can find one for free. As well as every OS and every device has a giant pile of mail clients for you to chose from.

And I mean, email is a simple tech stack and well understood and reliable: I host an internal mail server for notifications and updates and shit, and it's rapid, fast, and works perfectly.

It's only when you suddenly need to email someone OTHER than your local shit that it turns to complete shit.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org -4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Universiality, basically

Okay so we're just stuck with email permanently, forever, even when there are a hundred other objectively superior alternatives? No one wants to be the one to push that needle forward?

Are browser notifications not universal?

[–] neatobuilds 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I rather have an email than a browser notification, email is more passive I can check it when I want to and it'll be there, browser depending on which machine I'm on is going to get wiped when I close it

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

hard agree, I hate browser notifications with a hard passion, I would never see them if they swapped to that.