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I've saw quite a few similar stories over the past years and this left me very scared. I've been a heavy user of google services for more than 15 years. For so

I've saw quite a few similar stories over the past years and this left me very scared. I've been a heavy user of google services for more than 15 years. For some months now (maybe a year?) I've been trying to reduce dependency on google services and apps. It is a slow process, but I hope to get it done in the next year or so. Meanwhile I try to use google takeout as much as possible to keep up to date backups of my data. My next step will be moving away from Gmail. Will probably register a domain so that I can have an address that is not tied to a specific cloud provider domain. Does anyone have a suggestion of an email provider I can use with custom domain?

joobus 6y ago
Fastmail.
bdcravens 6y ago
Hey will be providing custom domain support soonish: https://hey.com/custom-domains/ https://hey.com/custom-domains/ Microsoft 365 Business Basic has support for custom domains starting at $5/month.
benhurmarcel 6y ago
Fastmail is good, Mailbox.org is reputable and a bit cheaper.
mbirth 6y ago
> Does anyone have a suggestion of an email provider I can use with custom domain? I’ve set it up the other way around. All mail gets sent to a cheap VPS that has qmail rules to accept all aliases from a text file. This way, whenever I sign up for a new service, I just add the service’s name to the text file and suddenly have “servicename@mydomain” as an email address. Same for compromised mail - just remove the entry from the file and add another one, change email address with the compromised service (or cancel the account) and you won’t be bothered by spam anymore. All addresses not in that text file go to some local CatchAll folder I only check occasionally. All mail that’s passing this filter is getting a DKIM and/or DMARC signature and forwarded to my GMail account. But I can easily have it sent to a completely different account in a matter of minutes. And the email provider doesn’t have to support custom domains.

joobus 6y ago

Fastmail.

bdcravens 6y ago

Hey will be providing custom domain support soonish: https://hey.com/custom-domains/ https://hey.com/custom-domains/ Microsoft 365 Business Basic has support for custom domains starting at $5/month.

benhurmarcel 6y ago

Fastmail is good, Mailbox.org is reputable and a bit cheaper.

mbirth 6y ago

> Does anyone have a suggestion of an email provider I can use with custom domain? I’ve set it up the other way around. All mail gets sent to a cheap VPS that has qmail rules to accept all aliases from a text file. This way, whenever I sign up for a new service, I just add the service’s name to the text file and suddenly have “servicename@mydomain” as an email address. Same for compromised mail - just remove the entry from the file and add another one, change email address with the compromised service (or cancel the account) and you won’t be bothered by spam anymore. All addresses not in that text file go to some local CatchAll folder I only check occasionally. All mail that’s passing this filter is getting a DKIM and/or DMARC signature and forwarded to my GMail account. But I can easily have it sent to a completely different account in a matter of minutes. And the email provider doesn’t have to support custom domains.