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Email for self hosted services? (Not personal email)
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It is kind of a hassle to get all your DNS set up so your mail doesn't go to spam. If you don't already know what you're doing it will probably take over an hour.
Even if properly setup it could still go to spam until you get your reputation score up which with low volumes will take ages.
So i was thinking about this from a dns perspetive. If you have a dns forwarder can you not configure it to ensure that emails from the local smtp server never leave tour lan?
If you have local SMTP and IMAP you can send mail on your own systems, or if you're not using containers and you run everything on the same system you may even be able to skip SMTP and just deliver directly. But if you want to receive mail from outside your LAN you'll need a way to access your IMAP server.