Yunohost without hosting email?

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Hi fellow hosters,
I’m using my domain name for email in a professional service, so DNS MX records are already directed elsewhere. Naturally I don’t want to self-host mail myself, differently from my website and many other tools.

But many Yunohost apps require sending mail to root@mydomain.ltd. Some of them even have a necessary installation step, and you cannot proceed or configure things without email.

Can I use my existing mail instead of root@mydomain.ltd?
Or should I just create this mail account in my mail server, and somehow configure just outgoing mail in yunohost?
Or maybe I need a subdomain just for mail?

I suspect it should be quite a regular case - almost nobody advises hosting primary email at home.
So how are you dealing with it?

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I use my Yunohost email internally only–that is, only to interact with other users of my server and to receive administrative notifications. I simply installed Roundcube (and/or Rainloop), configuring it to use my server email address, and I can read the admin/root emails.

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Almost nobody advices hosting anything at home :stuck_out_tongue:

Your first user account is set up with aliasses for root@domain etc. Did you know you can configure a forwarding address in your user account?

Otherwise, you can disable mail functionality at the domain level and read mail to root (etc) locally/ via webmail (as suggested by @anon78416416 )

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Or, if you current email provider supports it, you can setup a SMTP relay

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Hello. I’m currently in the same boat. I have or will hopefully have my domain set up through Fastmail for email only. I don’t really want to use yunohost even though it is on a shared VPS. I do not want to put all my eggs in one basket. If something server side decides it wants to fall over, I don’t want email to go with it. If it turns out my use case is different than this person’s, that’s fine. I can run my mail through postmark, and I thought I had yunohost set up to do that, it has never actually run correct for a while. I’d be more than happy to set up a different topic if it turns out my use case is a bit more advanced, I just don’t want to duplicate topics all that much as that might annoy all of you wonderful volunteers. If there is a better more efficient way for me to in theory jut use postmark to do everything and set up email addresses and inboxes on yunohost I would be willing to learn how to do that. We use external email clients to access our emails.

My use case is for some instructors. I would want each of them to have their own email and I would want to run all of it ideally through postmark and make it easy for our external clients to just have things set up.

Thanks, and once again if my use case is different let me know and I can set up a different thread. I’m flexible. I just don’t have the necessary vocabulary to explain what I want to do. It’s been a minute since I’ve had to do this and it’s like getting back on the bile. If there is even an app, I can install to aid me in setting all of this up, let me and or us know as well.

Happy Monday. Thanks for such a wonderful service.