infra: email notifications might be a bit spotty
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I remember when I first signed up for awful.systems I never got an email that I was approved (because y’know it was a baby website at the time). So I forgot about it for a couple weeks and then was like “oh yeah maybe that went through”.
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so that seems to be a thing it doesn’t in fact do! I mean, you’d think it would
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nah, I wouldn’t (think that). I’ve read some of the lemmy code.
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so do you want to hear something terrible? if you give Lemmy SMTP credentials for notifications but it can’t auth against the server for any reason, it’ll just hang the entire lemmy backend forever
which makes switching email providers a bit nerve-wracking, you understand
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okay uh don’t hate me too much for this but: second service instance postfix, which just acts as a forwarder to whatever you pick? that can have static auth in it for lemmy and thus break as little as possible, and it’ll just always queue flush
basically ye olde smarthost, SaaS nightmare edition
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heck it can run on the same actual box, postfix is not heavy
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