I am thinking of creating an SMTP forwarder for my email users.
I see that the hestiaCP panel allows me to add an SMTP forwarder but I don’t know the procedure to create it.
I don’t know if it is good practice to do this out of the box (i.e. without having a provider for it).
I appeal to the experience of the community to clear this doubt.
Thank you very much
If you mean operating an email forwarding service, I strongly advise against it. I also suggest not using a webserver to relay directly to destination MX hosts.
Routing all outbound mail through a reputable smarthost, however, is a good idea. You will want to use a provider configured in a way that will allow you to readily identify the source customer in the event that you need to address any abuse issues.
Yes, I recommend that you use an SMTP, I use Amazon SES and it works wonderfully, the IP does not fall into a blacklist and the emails do not go to spam.