Gmail alternative: good idea to use personal domain+hosting?
Gmail alternative: good idea to use personal domain+hosting?
I know there are alternatives like proton mail, tutamail, mailbox.org, etc... But what would be the issue if I create an email using my personal domain, stored in my hosting.. maybe encryption? It seems that no-one even consider this option, but I am not sure why...
What would you suggest?
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I only dipped my toes into email hosting at a (terrible) job, the effort and complaints when things didn’t send/receive properly was too much.
That being said, personally I’ve used Gmail and I’m ready to get rid of it. I’ve got a domain I’d like to start using.
What’s everyone’s preference for provider? (I’m avoiding Proton Mail due to the CEO’s recent controversy)
I moved over to fastmail and have been enjoying it, but I'm sure there are plenty of people who will tell me why it was the wrong choice.
I’ve been happy with Fastmail.
The cost isn’t too bad at $5/mo per user.
The wildcard email thing is cool. You can use addresses like [email protected] to hand out to companies on the fly.
I may go back to hosting my own, but I have no complaints with Fastmail at all.
Oh I didn't even thinking about using wildcard addresses on the fly. I've been using the masked email addresses, but that obviously requires forethought.
Depends on your use case. I went with using a custom domain with my iCloud mail account. This lets me accept all messages sent to my custom domain.
So when I create accounts I just use that as the email address like this: [email protected], [email protected], etc.
They all go to one mailbox but that’s all I need anyway. I’ve been happy with it.
Can you send mail through each email? I had a catch all forwarder before but it l had to reply with a different email, leading to occasional issues.
That’s basically the reason I have a server. I can set up forwarders between my wife and I, and if I need to send mail as [email protected], I can just set up the alias and send it.
With apple you’re limited to 5 sending addresses per domain, so no I cannot reply as the from address to most, but that hasn’t been an issue for me at all.