Hi,

I’m looking for some way to send my own alerts via e-mail in some way. Whenever I try to search for this, most docker images have a much grander goal, and I have a hard time understanding how to use them for my purpose.

What would I want? It’d be nice to have a docker running some smpt-server (I suppose), so that I can make my own python script that scrapes a website, looks at some metric, and e-mails me whenever whatever I’m looking for is found. I only want it to be available on and to receive mails from localhost, no dns, just forward e-mails to my personal one, no web-interface, etc.

I’m quite new to self-hosting, but I hope you still understand what I’m looking for. Is it possible? Should I look for another solution? Will this not work? Any help/input very much welcome.

  • Lupec@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I know it’s not exactly what you’re looking for but I’ve explored some (free) options myself with good deliverability and ended up settling on smtp2go. Tied it to my domain, and it allows me to send 1000 emails/month hassle free. Everything else I looked into either wouldn’t get delivered or costed way more I thought was worth for simple notifications.

    I’ll echo the other comment and say gotify could be a great option as well, I only stuck with email because it’s easier on less tech literate family I provide services to and whatnot.