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You should be using your own domain anyways.
by _jcwu 8y ago
You should be using your own domain anyways.
- dotancohen 8y agoYou've never lost a domain name I see.
- bad_user 8y agoAs long as you're paying for it, there's very little probability of that happening. I got my personal domain (alexn.org) in approximately 2008, so that's older than most people's Gmail accounts ;-)
- dotancohen 8y agoWell, my Gmail account dates to 2004 but my personal domain dates to December 2000! I've lost domains that I continued to pay for, in fact I'm pretty sure that Zoho was paying for their domains as well.
- swalladge 8y agoAgreed 100%. After losing multiple emails addresses in the past due to ISP changes, having an email on your own domain is nice. You can then even switch email providers as you wish and your address will follow.
- samlewis 8y agoLast time I tried this, I found a lot of corporate spam filters seemed to (silently) drop my emails, so I went back to using GMail out of frustration. Is there anything you do that helps with this? I was using GApps and I don't think my domain name was too spammy (samlewis.me).
- geofft 8y agoHuh, I haven't had that problem in about 7 years of using a custom domain name. Maybe the distinction is that mine is a .com? I feel like enough businesses themselves use custom domain names that dropping unknown .coms would break a ton of legitimate B2B traffic, but perhaps .me less so. How did you notice this?
- adley 8y agoI use a .me domain myself but I haven't had any spam problems. Although I share it very very sparingly and have a catchall on another domain that I use for signing up with any service / sharing with non-trusted contacts. Even there, the spam problem isn't bothersome.
- cflee 8y agoI haven't had any issues with my personal domain in years, ever since I moved it from random web host to GApps, to deal with IP reputation issues, and have SPF+DKIM setup. (but my domain is a .net one)
- smingo 8y agoDid you manage to configure SPF correctly in your DNS records?
- brightball 8y agoMake sure you setup SPF/DKIM/DMARC and you should be fine 99% of the time. - Disclosure, I work for dmarcian
- abrowne 8y agoWhich FastMail does if you have them host your DNS!
- brightball 8y agoFast mail will host your DNS? Had not seen that...
- chrisper 8y agoDon't use any of the "unsual" TLDs, like .io, .me, .toys, etc.
- kitsunesoba 8y agoSurprisingly difficult for a personal-professional email if you have a somewhat common name. Nearly everything under the main TLDs was bought up ages ago. The issue can be mitigated with some creative branding work, but that’s arguably not any easier.
- ekovarski 8y agoI've used .io and other "unusual" TLDs for a while and never had an email bounce or flagged as spam. As someone else pointed out, make sure you setup spf, dkim, and all the other jazz. Some providers will host and setup the dns for you but its always best to use your own dns provider as the records are relatively easy to setup.
- davemp 8y agoI do this and make a new alias for everyone I give an address to (such as hn@domain.com). It can be interesting to see who leaks/sell your email address. You can also shut down alias that get out of control.
- billysielu 8y agoI do this too but sometimes companies reject my replies because the from address isn't the same address they have on record. Maybe there's a way to make the "reply's from" the same as the "original's to" but idk.
- laken 8y agoWith FastMail, you can select your wildcard as your "from" address on their web app, and just directly edit the `*` to be `<whatever>` and it will work fine :)
- beagle3 8y agoFastMail lets you change the from: address on the fly if you’ve set up a catch all. And if you are not with fadtmail, there’s are several “multiple identities” add-ons for thunderbird (and recently a built in one, though it is still buggy) which let you add from addresses on the fly.
- billysielu 8y agoThanks for replies. Link for others: https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/alias-catchall.html https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/alias-catchall.html
- danieldk 8y agoFastmail has an even nicer feature: subdomain addressing. If you are dave@mp.com, you can set up Fastmail to accept subdomains dave@hn.mp.com dave@lobsters.mp.com Avoids catchalls ;).
- billysielu 8y agoTyvm! That looks epic. Link: https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/addressing.html https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/addressing.html Might be tricky if the time came to migrate away from FastMail though.