Submitted 1 year ago by MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works to selfhosted@lemmy.world
I’d really like to use the service and in fact I wish I’d been using it forever. But I want to do it right and self host it. It’s just, maybe the most complicated thing I’ve ever seen.
Does it require self hosting your own email server as well? If you already own a domain, does that make the process easier?
To piggyback further, I’ve been wondering if having my own domain would help me get around my double nat issue not allowing me to make reverse proxies.
Thanks in advance to the community!
I used to host anonaddy, I don’t have the docker compose or configs anymore but I don’t remember it being that bad. I stopped a couple years ago because simplelogin became included with my vpn subscription (and then I found fastmail, which has a similar feature built in so I ended up canceling simplelogin and that vpn and going to fastmail and mullvad). I basically just edite their example compose/env files and ran it behind my existing nginxproxymanager setup (that is gone now too, ended up moving to traefik but that’s a story for another time). compose example here: github.com/anonaddy/docker/tree/master/…/compose
Thanks! Do you have a static IP or anything? I’m behind a double NAT and my ISP is really restrictive. They don’t even let me use port forwarding on the suplied ont/router
yah, you need an ideally clean static ip because that is what is used for repution stuff like spf/dmarc/dkim I hosted this on a tiny vps
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| NAT | Network Address Translation |
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I have a catchall inbox so I can just make up any email I want and everything gets forwarded to the catchall inbox. It’s pretty easy to set up if you do host your own mail server (which is relatively easy for receiving mail). Obviously this doesn’t integrate with bitwarden or anything, though.
You need to pay for an email service or? I do have my own domain. Bitwarden has catchall functionality builtin! i.imgur.com/JEXOrnI.png
Relays do cost money, though I think some have a free tier for small volumes of mail. You might also see if your registrar or host provides anything for email.
The easiest way to do this is to start with just receiving email and not worrying about forwarding, though. You can host your own imap server and just have a catchall account that’s separate from your main email to start, and if you really want to forward you can worry about send later. Receiving email is easy, the thing that people struggle with for email is sending because there are a few requirements like dkim / spf / DMARC and reverse dns that you might not know about and may configure incorrectly and feedback is hard. Also if you have a residential ip I’ve heard it can be harder to send too. If you’re just forwarding to yourself, though, that’s probably a little easier because you can test more easily / mark yourself not spam. If this is your use case I wouldn’t worry about setting up a paid relay service. You don’t need it unless you really want to forward and have troubles making send work in your own.
CameronDev@programming.dev 1 year ago
Isnt anon addy the kind of thing that works best for not self-hosting? You’d need a domain, which is registered directly to you, so not anonymous, and youd end up getting all the spam emails sent to your mx server, so you would have to deal with that?
MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Have you tried self hosting it or know what goes into it? Do you know of any alternatives? The functionality I’m after is being able to use a different email address per service I sign up for and tracking that with bitwarden, then forwarding all emails to my main email.
tuff_wizard@aussie.zone 1 year ago
You can use a “+” symbol to make simple sub-aliases that all get sent to your normal email. If my email is me@domain.com any email sent to me+anything.example@domain.com will be sent to the inbox of me@domain.com but the email address is was sent to will be listed at me+anything.example@domain.com. Bitwarden can do this automatically when you generate a login.
If your email alias is ever leaked or gets used for spam you can just block all emails going to that alias.