No one compares You stand alone To every record I own Music to my heart That’s what you are A song that goes on and on

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  • Avoiding spam filters and ISP blocks are a common issue with self hosted email.

    Ideally you’ll have a mature domain, dkim configured and an IP that’s not blacklisted on a network that allows email traffic.

    OVH offers pretty cheap email hosting if you just want a turn key solution.

    Otherwise if you want your home lab to work this way you may need to configure something akin to a forward proxy on a VPS to act as a gateway for your homelab.

    This could be achieved using wireguard and iptables. By routing the email traffic to your homelab.















  • That must be a very unfortunate situation where you don’t have control of your network for that to be a concern though. in which case I wouldn’t expect it to be suitable for a internet facing homelab?

    Like I’m struggling to think of scenarios for this.

    I suppose you could be trying to setup a homelab on a college network or using someone else’s internet connection where you have no input on the matter.

    Perhaps, I could see a case for CGNAT like another user mentioned, where the whole town shares an single IP for example. But I’d imagine such a network would offer poor performance.

    But in all those scenarios, a VPS is cheaper and you can do everything this service offers and more.





  • If I was in your IT department I’d be required to shut this down and probably revoke your access until our bosses decide on your future.

    Keep in mind, your employer has a responsibility to protect their data and this would subject your homelab to any legal liabilities such as a lawsuit search order and data privacy auditing.

    Any solution you work out needs to be signed off on in writing if it’s outside their expected usage.

    Another important point o365 requires oauth2 authentication unless your IT department has intentionally allowed other forms of authentication or they are in a hybrid legacy environment.

    When they broke EWS and office 2010 compatibility they crippled many foss solutions without an additional license and the tools that do work will report details to exchange about your homelab. So if your department is diligent it’ll come to their attention.