I used the Ansible playbook instructions and got my instance up and running, which is where I’m sending this from now. Still, I was not able to get the SMTP side of things working. Does this whole setup self-host SMTP on the Lemmy instance, or is it something I’ll have to sort out externally? I’ve heard some people have had issues with Digital Ocean on certain ports, which is the VPS provider I’m hosting on, but even other ports I’ve tried have not worked.
I used Mailgun and port 2525 for smtp in GCP. It also blocks port 25.
Do you know if Mailgun is free for 5,000 emails per month, or is that offer for only the first month of service?
I believe it’s always free. I’ve used it for the last year and haven’t paid a penny.
Oh, dope. I’ll give it a try.