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Yes I understand. That makes sense. My response was to MrGrey's suggestion of MailChimp, which is more for like newsletters n' stuff. I didn't want miscommunication so I wanted to be clear that wasn't the type of problem I wanted to solve. Thanks for the suggestion. Ya I can see that email is the one thing that should not be self-hosted. What I will do is get an email hosting service (that isn't just the usual free Outlook or Gmail), then some day later *maybe* look into having it forwarded to a private server; that would be the "...or something like it" part of the solution. Thanks all.

I do not plan on sending lots of emails. Like I said in my original post, a number of self hosted services need an email server to send notifications, like to reset passwords and stuff.

Thanks for the clarification. The registrar of my domain offers email hosting. It does not explicitly say anything about a smarthost or email relay. I'm sure I could ask their support to double check. I want to be sure I understand this right: the email hosting service runs and SMTP server that my domain points to, say, `stmp.example.com`. then I set up an SMTP server locally on unraid. ... would this be `smtp2.example.com`? The email hosting service forwards all emails recieved to my local server. If I send an email from `[email protected]` to `[email protected]` it first goes to `smtp.example.com` and then goes to `[email protected]` all without being blocked or whatever. And the reverse can happen so I can receive emails? And also the email only stays in `smtp.example.com` momentarily before forwarding to `smtp2.example.com`. is this the general idea?

I've been self-hosting some things that have logins and stuff. For example Nextcloud needs an email server to connect to so it can send notification emails. I was going to set up my own email server for this purpose but I am pretty sure my ISP blocks port 25, which I believe is required to send out any email. So, I am wondering what is the closest I can get to self-hosting my own SMTP server using my own domain and stuff. Should I purchase an email hosting service from the registrar of my domain? Anything I can do to get a little closer to self-hosting, like having emails stored on my unraid server somehow? Thanks for any wisdom on this matter!

Hi, I want to run a docker container once in a while. I'm wondering what the best practices are. Here is what I got: A container runs a python script with an ENTRYPOINT directive so I can supply extra parameters. A User Script (which I think is a cron job?) is planned to run the container periodically once with one set of parameters, and again with another set. something like : docker run --rm pyscript args1 docker run --rm pyscript args2 However, I also have ENV variables in the Dockerfile I want to set. I would have to put them into the `run` comands. I figured one solution would be to use `docker start` and create an UnRaid docker template with the variables all set there. But `start` doesn't allow for adding extra parameters. My question is, what would be the cleanest way to do this? Should I just suck it up and put the variables right in the script? If the variable is a password of sorts, is this as secure putting a password in an UnRaid docker template?

Thanks for the explanation! I was hoping the share on `cache: yes` would always write to the cache first, then the mover would update. That way old files in the share just chill in the array where regularly used ones are on the cache. But I see now that `cache: prefer` is the way to go if there are ever going to be any files that frequently get written to.

Hello, I have a docker container that regularly writes to a share that is set to `Cache: yes`. I assume it is then writing to the cache. I also assume nothing else is writing to the array that regularly (I'm like 99% sure). The mover runs much less frequently than the docker container writes. Thus, I expect the array to spin down. I does not spin down. The docker container writes every 10 minutes The mover moves once a day (outside the time I am testing this issue) The spin-down delay is 30 minutes I switched the share to `Cache: prefer`. Then eventually the array spun down. I must not be understanding how the spin-down delay and the cache interact. Does anyone have some kind of explanation for this? And also, is there a way I can set the share to `Cache: yes` and have the array spin down as I expect? Thanks in advance for any info!