Gmail alternative: good idea to use personal domain+hosting?
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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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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
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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
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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
Definitely. I do it for fun though. I'm kind of a masochist
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I've been using my own domain pointed at Inbox.eu. They're based in the EU and I haven't had any problems, I pay for 2 users, the price is something like 12€ per user per year, so it's cheap enough for me.
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If you mean self-hosting email, then good luck.
It’s a lottery with the IP and even the IP space you get, whether anyone will actually receive your emails.
I hosted my own for a few years, but god fed up telling everyone to dig through their junk folder for my emails, and not being responded to very often, probably because of just that.
Maybe some providers have it better, but I tried a few and each was just not good. I really think Microsoft, Amazon, Google and other big players have intentionally separated the good, trusted IPs, ones they use for email services specifically, and made the other worse
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Yeah, did the whole dance too, and tried multiple providers, but no dice. Some got through to others and some to others, but none was even good enough getting through to most.
This was just a few years ago.
I don’t think these safety/security signatures or protocols or whatever, work, as they are supposed to. If the IP space you get has bad reputation, nothing matters, you’re sol.
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I have my own domain and pay for Zoho to host my email. It works well aside from the occasional site that refuses to accept my email as valid because it's not a .com/org domain.
