Gmail alternative: good idea to use personal domain+hosting?
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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.
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The other user already shared some article with lots of historical data, both words and actions, that should give a better picture.
Anyway, since you decided to ignore all that, then there is also to say that the tweet was a speculation made months ago on a topic where nothing happened yet (or at least, I haven't read any news about antitrust in the last month).
I don't think anything will happen, but anyway that makes it at most naive. -
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.
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I’m not the only user of my domain, I have other users.
I don’t want to use Google.
My use case unfortunately meant proton and Tutanoa did not work.
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Yeah,but please don't use Proton unless you are aware of their drawbacks and marketing lies.
(I am not counting the tweet here...)Or go through my post history,I have explained multiple times here why proton is not an ideal choice.
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I'm basic. Been using namecheap+privateemail for years and no complaints. Mostly through the clients Thunderbird on desktop of FairMail on mobile.
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I agree!
Setup felt like a nightmare but once everything is up and running it's fine.
The other issue is maintenance which is where I gave up. Easier and more painless to just pay another company to do that and not have to worry about server security, spam, the endless SSH requests for 'admin', etc etc
