As in this picture, l don’t want to remain a sender/recipient, but an address in itself. So that l can house multiple senders/recipients.

Would that be possible ?

  • freeman@feddit.org
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    you severely underestimate how big of a project this is. I got into homeservers a few years ago and still dont trust myself to open anything up to the internet. and a mailserver is very likely getting targetted, getting flooded with spam and at the same time has to have good uptime to be useable and practical. I think you should do this: Host something small first, like a PiHole oder AdGuard. Then maybe an arr Stack or Home Assistant. After that Immich/Ente and then a Website. Id you did at least one or two projects I mentionned you will be able to judge for yourself if you are ready for a own mailserver

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      There’s also the whole that even if you get everything working successfully that when you send mail it ends up in recipients junk mail folders because Google/Microsoft/other big email providers are marking your domain as spam since it’s new and unrecognized.

      There’s definitely other ways to achieve getting notifications without going to the extent of a full email server.

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        Not just your domain because it’s newly registered. Your ISPs entire residential IP block because someone 15 years ago was infected with malware that sent gmail/hotmail some spam. It doesn’t mater how much SPF, DKIM, and DMARC you set up, you’re still blocked.

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          And this is the bottom of the rabbit hole that we all go down learning it’s probably not worth it even in a corporate environment much less homelab.