Hey folks,

I spent some time this morning playing with email, specifically outgoing SMTP connections. Previously I was following a guide where I set up an SMTP relay locally, but it never worked.

Turns out, my ISP is blocking outbound port 25, apparently it’s a “To protect you, the customer, we’ll prevent spam from being sent from you.”

So, if anyone knows of a good (free) SMTP service, or is willing to support us by setting up an SMTP account on something like sendgrid,google,whatever, I’d be happy to point Lemmy towards it. Right now they are all limited to something like 100 emails a day, which at first seems fine but with comment replies I think with our small size we’d already be hitting that limit.

An alternative might be to set up a VM that runs postfix as a relay in the cloud, but from what I read most of them also block outbound port 25 for spam protection.