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Ways to forward an email via SMTP (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by theposs101@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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First time caller long time listener here lol

So basically I’m working on a Wordpress website which is also self hosted, and I’m wondering if anyone knows if there’s a self hostable way to reflect/forward emails? Or if there’s a WP plugin that would be cool too

I’m using Zoho as my email provider and have SMTP set up for outgoing and incoming emails. I already have it configured and set up between Zoho and my Wordpress website for email newsletters.

Now I want to set up a “reflector” where someone can email reflector@example.com, and have it go to a list of subscribers. I can set up SMTP for that as well.

Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance!!!

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[-] adamshand@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not entirely sure what you are asking for.

Yes, you can setup a chain of SMTP servers which will redirect email's however you like. Postfix is an excellent choice for this.

If you want emails sent to reflector@example.com to be automatically forwarded to many people you can do that with the /etc/aliases file which most SMTP servers provide.

If you are wanting a more complete system (for example to allow people to subscribe to the email address, to automatically unsubscribe bouncing addresses, to create archives, to only allow some people to send messages etc) you want to use a mailing list.

If this is for group discussion you want something like Mailman. If this is for newsletters (eg. only you send messages), you might look at something like ListMonk or Mautic.

[-] theposs101@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

This is about the solution I was looking for. You sir are brilliant. Thank you

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