Service Overview
Just got your instance online? This guide will give you the tour 'round the Admin UI and show you the first steps from first-ever-account login to sending emails.
Welcome to MailFlow Relay
Welcome to your own instance. We hope you had a calm install. Now what?
Step 0: Getting in
First thing you might ask yourself when seeing the logi prompt is "where do I sign up?". The neat part is: you dont. you just log in. First account on the instance will automatically be made administrator regardless of configuration and after that the allowlist is enforced.
Step 0.5: Setting up your passkey
You should have gotten a request to set a passkey for the application. this allows you to skip the usual Email-OTP and get right in. Until your instance can send emails out this will be the only way you can log in again.
Step 1: Getting Emails out
This is the first step where MailFlow Relay requires external support. By itself the system cannot send Emails. For that it needs a correctly configured SES egress or SMTP egress. You should now pick one and follow the setup guide for your chosen provider. If you need help deciding there's a quickstart for that.
Step 2: Getting Emails in
The outbound is required for Email-OTP, it is the primary authentication method. You can run an instance without any ingress configured although that would make for a pretty pointless exercies.
To get emails to flow in to the system you choose a provider and follow the setup guide for the chosen SES ingress or SMTP ingress.
You may use more then one ingress in parallel. We currently do not support multiple instances of the same ingress type.