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Hi,

I'm looking for some way to send my own alerts via e-mail in some way. Whenever I try to search for this, most docker images have a much grander goal, and I have a hard time understanding how to use them for my purpose.

What would I want? It'd be nice to have a docker running some smpt-server (I suppose), so that I can make my own python script that scrapes a website, looks at some metric, and e-mails me whenever whatever I'm looking for is found. I only want it to be available on and to receive mails from localhost, no dns, just forward e-mails to my personal one, no web-interface, etc.

I'm quite new to self-hosting, but I hope you still understand what I'm looking for. Is it possible? Should I look for another solution? Will this not work? Any help/input very much welcome.

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[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Postfix can be configured to only listen on localhost. Most things can be, actually.

[–] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ah, postfix looks like what I'm looking for, thanks. Have to see if I can figure out how to configure it.

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 2 points 2 years ago

ArchWiki, as always, is amazing.