Edit after the fact: I switched all of the email stuff over to a proper email forwarding service thing. I've been told that's the best way to stay out of spam folders.

Original post below:

Someone signed up for the Zulip chat recently (chat.wetshav.ing) and Apple sent a notice back saying the sign up email was rejected (sent to spam, maybe?)

Anyway, that sent me down a rabbit hole of how emails are sent from some of the services I run. For example, PieFed requires an email confirmation for new accounts to cut down on spam. Stuff like that.

It has been set up to use SMTP through gmail using TLS and port 587 because that was the only thing I could get working. The recommended setup is port 465, and my hope is that Apple email will more readily accept emails coming from that.

The problem is, 465 has been blocked by Hetzner since I started running all of this stuff. Fortunately I was able to get it unblocked very easily.

The biggest problem I noticed (which is now fixed) is that this means the Shaving Data System (a baserow template available at database.wetshav.ing) has had broken email for months and months!!! Which means anyone who tried to create a new account probably wasn't able to, which is frustrating.

I've said it before, but running this stuff is a hobby for me and I'm always happy to learn new things. Sorry if it caused any frustration for anyone!