Comment on Spit Balling A Work Around For Blocked Email Port
pgo_lemmy@feddit.it 6 days ago
You need a mail server somewhere, a mail client cannot listen for incoming messages. A possible workaround: you could activate your own mail server accessible only inside tailscale and use it to send and receive your local alerts.
irmadlad@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Would something like Mailu work. It runs in a docker container.
pgo_lemmy@feddit.it 6 days ago
Mailu is a mail server so it is suitable for the task.
A mail client cannot listen for incoming messages because it does not have the listening part; a mail client interacts with a server for all the tasks, it does not sit listening and waiting for messages coming out of the blue from the outside world.