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Self-hosted or personal email solutions? (lemmy.world)
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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 johndoe@gmail.com or john@doe.com. 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 john@mydoe.com jane@mydoe.com 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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[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago

There are mail providers that let you use anything as a "from" address as long as it's @yourdomain. I mean why shouldn't they, it's your domain; it's a silly restriction in the first place. On Migadu it's called "wildcard sender" and once you activate it for a mailbox its user can send as anything@that.domain (even if it doesn't exist; they warn you to set up an alias or catch-all for it but let you shoot yourself in the foot).

Migadu also lets you define wildcard aliases (like shopping.at.*@your.domain) which are a good balance of both worlds: it's not a full catch-all but also you can make them up on the fly without having to go into your settings every time.

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