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Self-hosted or personal email solutions? (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I have a unique name, think John Doe, and I'm hoping to create a unique and "professional" looking email account like [email protected] or [email protected]. Since my name is common, all reasonable permutations are taken. I was considering purchasing a domain with something unique, then making personal family email accounts for [email protected] [email protected] etc.

Consider that I'm starting from scratch (I am). Is there a preferred domain registrar, are GoDaddy or NameCheap good enough? Are there prebuilt services I can just point my domain to or do I need to spin up a VPS and install my own services? Are there concerns tying my accounts to a service that might go under or are some "too big to fail"?

I can expand what hangs off the domain later, but for now I just need a way to make my own email addresses and use them with the relative ease of Gmail or others. Thanks in advance!!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

EasyDNS.ca or if they also do EasyDNS.com

GoDaddy was a bunch of sleazebags, back in the day...

Go search http://slashdot.org/ for them, and see...

not only hosting lots of sleazebags, but also having tons of compromised mail machines, so their machines were, according to what I'd read there, the source of much of the world's spam, and they wouldn't fix things.

EasyDNS was recommended by one of the SysAdmin reporters on The Register, a few years ago.

He also recommended Linode & Vultr, back then, too.

This stuff in this comment is just my opinion, and my memory of what trustworthy people were reporting a few years ago.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Friends don't let friends self host email.

Easy enough to make it work, but maintaining 100% uptime and 100% deliverability is very difficult.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

If you ever decide to host your own, via VPS or sth consider checking docker-mailserver and watchtower. First takes care of the mail stuff and the second updates your containers frequently so you will not have to manually update to new versions of the container (for security patches etc.).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

My father still has a gmail account for all of our last names.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I use both. I have a self hosted docker compose instance of mailcow, which alerts me when an update is available.

I also use protonmail as well.

Self hosting was a pain in the ass to get working, but I've had no issues with it once up. I tossed it behind a reverse proxy to keep it from directly touching the internet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I use Google Domains to create custom email addresses on the fly that syphons to my personal Gmail address.

If I subscribe to a service, say Netflix, I just put [email protected] and it automagically exists and redirects to my Gmail.

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