[the_common_man]

For email, you can use Cloudron from the DO marketplace.

DO opens up port 25 by raising a support ticket.

[dngray]

> I tried creating my own mail server with DigitalOcean but they didn't open port 25 for me

> DO opens up port 25 by raising a support ticket.

Should also note many of the DO IPs are on blacklists so you'll probably have issues with mail being delivered if you do that.