BBSes :) Because it was fantastic that we could dial eachothers computers and just share files and chat. Before that every computer were an island.
I feel the same with the fediverse now. The tech can create communities where people can talk without big tech being involved.
I edited my original post with what actually worked for me in the end.
No the fastmail account doesnt know anything about the lemmy.today address, so this could be an issue. And I dont have any DKIM or SFP records in my DNS. I could add that though, maybe thats a good next step?
But i tried to put the email I log in with as the "noreply" address, and I still dont any emails.
At least the signup page doesnt freeze up anymore, since it seemingly can talk to the email server, but no emails arrive. I also cant find anything in the logs about errors... i do "docker compose logs -n 100" to get the last 100 rows from each container but no errors there.
Federation works fine, the only thing that doesnt is the email sending for some reason. :/
yeah they block 465 but not 587, so i can connect to it with starttls. But dont get any emails, so something else is wrong....
This gets a connection:
openssl s_client -connect smtp.fastmail.com:587 -starttls smtp
So its open on port 587 to the email server, but I dont get any emails arriving there...
Actually it seems that port 587 is open (starttls) while port 465 (tls) is closed. I can connect to port 587 on my email server from my Hetzner instance (im also using them).
But how should the config look like to forward emails? How does your config look like?
Oh I see. I had put Lemmy.ml on the allowed list and never intended other instanced to not be allowed.
Fixed, thank you!
I think it's better with less choices for beginners actually. I remember a lot of people didn't get started on mastadon because they were afraid to pick an instance.
It's almost so it would be good if this could just be a checkbox "pick a good instance for me" and it would pick a medium populated instance from the list.
I'm a little bit confused by the federation thing. How would I let my instance talk to any other instance except the ones I blacklist?
Great work! Can you include the instance description in this list also?
Also i would love to see country but that's doesn't seem to be included in the Lemmy app. I guess you could do a ip lookup on some service to see country if you really wanted to.
Yeah I know, I was not answering the question properly here. In my head I was thinking "best thing about computer communication" I guess. I didn't run a bbs on the internet, but I did before it. :)
Best thing about the internet was being able to find what I was looking for, before corporations wanted to monetize everything.