About 2 months ago, I set up a #Mobilizon server to give people a decentralized, ActivityPub connected, alternative to #FacebookEvents, https://my-group.events/
It really pleases me to see that people are discovering it and using it to manage events instead of using big-tech owned centralized corporate controlled solutions. We need to keep making these alternatives available to people.
I have my own mail server.
Setting up an email SMTP server for these applications has always been a PITA because many of the settings (ports, authentication type, etc.) need to be tried in different combinations before finding a combination that works. For example, I thought MOBILIZON_SMTP_SSL would work, but for some reason, it didn’t, but TLS worked.
Maybe you just haven’t found the right combination.
I use these settings, but you may need to do trial and error to get things right for your service.
MOBILIZON_SMTP_PORT=587 MOBILIZON_SMTP_SSL=false MOBILIZON_SMTP_TLS=if_available
the smtp is definitely working. my question is whether Microsoft and Google will deliver the message without mailgun etc
I would think so. I’m not aware of any restrictions, unless they have some maximum number of emails in a specific time period.