Gmail alternative: good idea to use personal domain+hosting?
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I can read his tweet. It makes absolutely no sense as his words are the literal opposite of what is really happening right in front of everyone's eyes. The only explanation is he is sucking up to the party that is dismantling our democracy for his own financial gain.
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I bought a domain through cloud flare qand use them for dns, I use Fastmail as my mail service.
Fairly simple setup.
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Same, but with tuta for service. It works fine.
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I didn’t go with tuta or proton because they require a 3rd party plugin and part of my use case is playing https://triplea-game.org/
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Lots of people consider it and choose not to due to the complexity involved. One of many reasons to hate email.
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Does Proton bridge work? I know nothing about that game.
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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.
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stored in my hosting..
This, specifically, is the issue people are warning you about. Yes, your hosting account from Bluehost has the ability to handle email, but it's not great. It's really there just so the server can send admin emails and such, not support a full email architecture.
Simplifying - part of the way spam is detected by the servers that receive an email is to check the IP address from where it came from against a list of IP addresses known to deliver spam. If it's coming from a spam IP, the message is likely spam, so they either put it in the recipient's spam folder or fail to deliver it entirely.
Now, you may think you don't need to be worried because you're an upstanding web citizen and would never send out spam messages. However, your hosting is on a shared server, with anywhere from a handful to dozens and dozens of not hundreds of other hosting accounts, all sharing the same IP address, and they have this email ability as well. If any one of them, intentionally or unintentionally, sends out a bunch of spam messages and gets your IP address flagged, the entire server loses its reputation for some period of time. Most of the time, this is caused by people not keeping their website security up to date and their site getting infected. The malicious code then goes and sends out as many spam emails as it can before the hosting company shuts things down.
Unfortunately, you end up having very little control over the situation.
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You can ask your hosting provider to do something about your malicious/ incompetent neighbor, but they may or may not.
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You can ask to be moved to a new server, but that's just playing neighbor roulette.
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If you are able to get your hosting provider to do something about your neighbor, the other email servers in the world are still going to distrust receiving emails from your IP address for some period of time. You can make requests to try and have your IP address unflagged, that they may or may not do.
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Even if you do all the leg work of getting your server unflagged, one of your stupid neighbors could immediately get the server flagged again.
So, as others have said - yes, you can use your hosting account as your email server. But considering it's only a few bucks a month to have a dedicated email service handle it, it's generally not worth the hassle and headache.
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It’s not THAT bad. Certainly more complicated than before. I don’t think it requires that much upkeep. But this time around it took around 1 month to get it stable. Then I’m coasting for the time being.
But yes, unless you have a specific use case or strong desire, dont.
Email is so important. If you don’t have a stable way to do it and something goes down, you’re SOL and you are responsible
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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.
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Same, except I bought the domain through namecheap
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I do aliases through simplelogin and have my domain hosted on mxroute.
My domain is my real last name...so I have subdomains like
@myfirst.lastname.comgets pointed to simplelogin for aliases, which then forwards to mxroute.@mywifesfirst.lastname.comgoes to the same simplelogin and points to her Gmail for now.Mxroute is cheap and they've got decent web apps but really more made for traditional IMAP clients. And they don't really do groupware...just email. But that's really the hardest part, from an admin perspective.
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Prooooobably but I was also working with other users who are tech illiterate and setting up even an app password for a mail client is almost a bridge too far, so another plugin/program is asking them a lot unfortunately.
If I need encryption I can encrypt.
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Wait, is everyone using the same account or something? Why don't they just use whatever email account they already use?
Proton just sends and accepts regular, unencrypted email, which is totally fine for something like a casual game. Whether you use Proton or something else is irrelevant, all that matters is that your end works.
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I use Addy.io with my own domain. The reason is that I don't want to depend on Addyio.
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Nextcloud is great for contacts and calendar. Try it. I recommend using the all-in-one docker. Super easy to setup.
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What benefits do you get from selfhosting?
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A major downside is that email is not encrypted and Email usually contains very sensitive personal information.
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Where did you dig this up?
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He stands to gain nothing from this. This is a swizz company.
