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Gmail alternative: good idea to use personal domain+hosting? (lemmy.world)
submitted 23 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

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.