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First: kudos for having the guts to share a mistake. Second: kinda cool that you didn’t completely bash Namecheap, though the negative stuff you’ve described a

by ppetty 8y ago

First: kudos for having the guts to share a mistake. Second: kinda cool that you didn’t completely bash Namecheap, though the negative stuff you’ve described about them is well-deserved I think this may be (unfortunate) typical behavior for most registrars. So a couple of follow up questions: 1. What was the motivation for self-hosting your email? I’m genuinely curious. Proton sounds good. A year ago I switched from Google Apps to Fastmail (with a custom domain) & still feel like this was a great decision. Especially, because I have aliases for email addresses that use the same username but a fallback domain. If I ever forget about my domain renewal email will still get through to the 2nd domain. (That doesn’t help with logins though.) 2. Your name seems pretty unique, if .de isn’t available have you considered other TLDs? I’m kinda dumb in that regard and have gone overboard with my domain name + almost every TLD … although slightly proud not to have gotten sucked in to the .dev phenomenon. — Good luck!

kevingrahl 8y ago
Mistakes are what we learn from! 1) I like to have things in my own hand. On one hand It’s about having control over who could possibly have access to my mails. If I were using Gmail for example I’d have to put up with data mining and the entirety of Google and their advertising partners possibly reading my mail. In my case only my Hoster, whom I trust, has access to my server. On the other hand it’s about flexibility. It’s my mail server and I can adjust whatever settings I like. I haven’t been using any spam filtering for example but It’d be trivial to set it up and tune it to my exact needs. I can also use other domains without much setting up. I’d just have to register the domain and point it to my server and all my addresses would work with that domain. I’ve unlimited addresses, some just forwarding via .qmail some running a full virtual IMAP/SMTP account with separate credentials. Those .qmail forwarding addresses are super useful btw! I’m using a unique address for every service I use which makes it trivial to find out who’s selling my data/where spam comes from. Delete the virtual address and voila, no more spam from them. Running my own mail server also makes backups easier I’d like to think. I just backup the right directory with cron from time to time. 2) Sure, there are hundreds of TLD’s to choose from. I’m sure I’d find one that’d be alright but I’ve used kevingrahl.de for as long as I can remember and all my friends and customers are accustomed to it. Using a .de address has the added benefit that in theory my government should drop all captured packages intended for surveillance (Germany can’t legally spy on its own citizens, it is known that they filter by TLD as a first step). Thanks!

by ppetty 8y ago

kevingrahl 8y ago

Mistakes are what we learn from! 1) I like to have things in my own hand. On one hand It’s about having control over who could possibly have access to my mails. If I were using Gmail for example I’d have to put up with data mining and the entirety of Google and their advertising partners possibly reading my mail. In my case only my Hoster, whom I trust, has access to my server. On the other hand it’s about flexibility. It’s my mail server and I can adjust whatever settings I like. I haven’t been using any spam filtering for example but It’d be trivial to set it up and tune it to my exact needs. I can also use other domains without much setting up. I’d just have to register the domain and point it to my server and all my addresses would work with that domain. I’ve unlimited addresses, some just forwarding via .qmail some running a full virtual IMAP/SMTP account with separate credentials. Those .qmail forwarding addresses are super useful btw! I’m using a unique address for every service I use which makes it trivial to find out who’s selling my data/where spam comes from. Delete the virtual address and voila, no more spam from them. Running my own mail server also makes backups easier I’d like to think. I just backup the right directory with cron from time to time. 2) Sure, there are hundreds of TLD’s to choose from. I’m sure I’d find one that’d be alright but I’ve used kevingrahl.de for as long as I can remember and all my friends and customers are accustomed to it. Using a .de address has the added benefit that in theory my government should drop all captured packages intended for surveillance (Germany can’t legally spy on its own citizens, it is known that they filter by TLD as a first step). Thanks!