Kraft

Making progress on standing up my own #mastodon instance. Initially, went with a prebuilt setup, but that didn't work out of the gate.

Easier to just install it directly on the server, except for e-mail. Going to check out AWS SES since it doesn't have a minimum cost per month.

Seems to work, but need to wait for Amazon to approve SES to go to prod.

#mastoadmin

Dec 19, 2022 at 4:32amWeb
Show threadCharles FultonDec 19, 2022
@kraft I've used SES for production workloads for years and it's never given me any trouble.
Show threadKraftDec 19, 2022

@mackensen I may have worded that poorly. My account is still sandboxed for SES until Amazon approves my use case.

It just seems like a better solution that the others out there for something that I don't expect a high number of e-mails.

Show threadCharles FultonDec 19, 2022
@kraft Oh absolutely, I was just agreeing that it's a good idea. Unsandboxing is my least favorite part of the whole process :)
Show threadPaul JacobsonDec 19, 2022
@kraft I just created an app password for my #GoogleWorkspace account and I'm using the Google #SMTP gateway. I haven't actually seen any emails so I'm not sure if it's actually working.
Show threadJason Rouet šŸ‹Dec 19, 2022
@kraft Iā€™m using sendinblue smtp free plan for my solo instance. Works good, I guess 300 emails/month is more than enough. It took me 10min to open/configure the account and change the Dns.
Show threadJonathan LaCourDec 19, 2022
@kraft happy to share my docker-compose.yml if it helps.
Show threadKraftDec 19, 2022
@jonathan That would be nice to see something known to work in the real world!
Show threadJonathan LaCourDec 19, 2022
@kraft https://gist.github.com/cleverdevil/fa11d7370c5f7a842647615653fc4c72
My mastodon server's docker-compose configuration

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