Submitted 1 day ago by altphoto@lemmy.today to selfhosted@lemmy.world
For the longest time, I’ve been wanting to set up an email server with one of its main purposes being phone notifications.
Is there a fedi thing that I can use to do that?
You know how many server apps will ask for an email address?
Heck even immich asked for an email address! WTF! Ask me for my mastodon or my Lemmy address! So far these have been very reliable communication systems.
I guess the question is also a sort of statement. Why not add a fedi option for logins? Please???
Is something you might be interested in.
Ah! Indeed, very interesting!
Fedi doesn’t support secure communication, that’s why (the last time I dove into the subject) lemmy has a profile field for yer Matrix account. Encrypted communication. Mails are usually hosted on “reputable” services and has some sort of privacy agreement, something I’ve yet to see on a fedi site.
And if you think of lemmy or mastodon as a communication service rather than a publishing platform, you’re probably being spied on more than you expect.
Fedi logins would require an account backend, which is quite a way aways from the fediverse as far as I know. Not to mention it would require a stable, permanent fedi provider with absolute trust.
For a simple e-mail server you could use a server management suite like YunoHost, comes with a working mail server right out of the box. For only recieving registration mails and notification you wouldn’t even have to mess with online spam filters due to not being GAFAM.
Someone mentioned UnifiedPUSH, which is nice but has very limited platform support at the moment as it has to be added to every single site and app. As far as I know it also sends notifications only using transport encryption so the server admin would have access to your notifications. Better to self-host, best to self-host at home on your own hardware.
Looks like they hacked something already for this using:
github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/12842
It looks intimidating but probably same as spooling up a mastodon instance.
Not really a solution without something on iOS
If you have a Google account you can setup webhooks to a chat space. That’s the best way if it supports it. If you continue to have this problem with email only you could setup n8n to receive notifications via other methods and forward them to a webhook.
There is something called OpenWebAuth that is currently in use by Hubzilla.
JASN_DE@feddit.org 1 day ago
Most people have one or more email addresses (the OG federated messaging system) and email notifications pretty much “just work”. Compared to email usage, Fediverse users are a rounding error.
altphoto@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Okay but why not add the option. I’m going to request it on immich!
markstos@lemmy.world 16 minutes ago
Because less than 1% of users would use it and your trusting the security of not one bit partner but thousands of ever-changing small partners.
Also, email is already federated.
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Development time and user support?
These are two pretty obvious reasons. It takes time and time is a limited resource. Therefore, time should be spent on solving impactful problems. Lemmy account login is extremely low impact, it’s not a bad thing, it’s just not something that improves immich for a large portion of its user base.
Static_Rocket@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There were old wrappers that emulated sendmail but reformatted the message for use with gotify and such