this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2025
88 points (97.8% liked)

Technology

63134 readers
3541 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
88
Gmail alternative: good idea to use personal domain+hosting? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
65 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 8 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I managed to get my mails through 95% of servers I've tried, and after evaluating the 5% that didn't accept my mail, I just realized they can suck my man-tits. But maybe those 5% in your case might be recipients you value.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Which 5%

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

German hoster united internet. The few people I know with those addresses receive a signal message.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I hosted my own for a while. We could never send to gmail though and they are saddly too important.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I've read this with concerning frequency, was SPF/DMARC/DKIM all in order? I also have to question if it was a matter of IP reputation, since shared hosting IP ranges are usually pretty thrashed.

I rent mailbox services (for a custom domain) from a local ISP and don't have problems with deliverability as such.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Those were in order (it was 15 years ago so i don't recall if all existed but at least some did). Probably ip range but who knows

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago

That worked like a charm for me, but some strange German mall hoster demanded the blood of an unborn unicorn or something like that for it to work.