we’ve exceeded the usage tier for our email sending API today (and they kindly didn’t email me to tell me that was the case until we were 300% over), so email notifications might be a bit spotty/non-working for a little bit. I’m working on figuring out what we should migrate to — I’m leaning towards AWS SES as by far the cheapest option, though I’m no Amazon fan and I’m open to other options as long as they’ve got an option to send with SMTP

      • self@awful.systemsOPMEnglish
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        4 months ago

        so do you want to hear something terrible? if you give Lemmy SMTP credentials for notifications but it can’t auth against the server for any reason, it’ll just hang the entire lemmy backend forever

        which makes switching email providers a bit nerve-wracking, you understand

        • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
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          4 months ago

          okay uh don’t hate me too much for this but: second service instance postfix, which just acts as a forwarder to whatever you pick? that can have static auth in it for lemmy and thus break as little as possible, and it’ll just always queue flush

          basically ye olde smarthost, SaaS nightmare edition

            • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
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              4 months ago

              yep, literally just a side service in the same flake definition. only downside is you’ll need to feed logs to somewhere, and monitor queue depth. but those are both trivial (and you could even just trigger for queue depth over n for $time, because that’s enough indication of work/fail)

              • self@awful.systemsOPMEnglish
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                4 months ago

                huh, I kind of like it

                we’ll see how the migration goes in staging — if it’s smooth, I’ll add postfix as a todo. if there’s a bunch of problems, postfix might be the most immediate way out