[Help needed] issue self hosting lemmy and email smtp

I am trying to setup my own lemmy server. I used ansible.

I can access my server via my domain just fine. But emails are not working.

First i had my mail and mx records pointing to privateemail via namecheap.

Then i tried using cloudflare email routing and their mx records.

neither worked for me with error connecting.

I thought maybe using dovecot? But self hosting email is new to me

I was hoping to use namecheaps privateemail but wasn’t sure how to get it working.

The email account worked and can send / receive but Lemmy and postfix cannot communicate with it.

Now I have no Mx records as I’m not sure what I should be using I am sure I am missing something obvious but idk what

Any ideas ?

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Since nobody bothers to check previous posts (even from just a day or two ago), I won't bother with the details. All I will say is to learn the purposes of an MX record and how sending email works (and the differences). Hint: MX records have nothing to do with sending emails from your server. Just use a third party SMTP service in your config.hjson file.
- Oh I read plenty posts. I am no expert so not always easy for me to understand relating their experiences to mine.
  
  I was under the impression that postfix is all that was needed. And my config.hjson file is pointing to postfix. The issue that caused me to get confused and go down a very incorrect rabbit hole was that the postfix logs repeatedly error about connecting to my Mx record servers.

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