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What provider do you use for email? That does sound nice.

tstrimple 5y ago
I've tried something similar with Fastmail, and it works out well for the most part. I have ran into more than a couple services which won't accept email addresses not on a whitelisted domain for some reason and I had to use an @gmail.com address which forwards to my domain.
- tmk1108 5y ago
  Out of curiosity, are those popular services? I'm in process of setting up email on my own domain and it would suck having to fallback to Gmail if some service uses an accepted list of domains.
  - bluGill 5y ago
    fastmail is reasonably popular. Gmail is bigger, but fastmail is big enough that they cannot be ignored, unlike when I ran my own personal server and often found myself in blacklists without any knowable way to get off.
  - toast0 5y ago
    I've had a couple places not take my .us domain, but almost everything is fine with my .org. The places I've run into that are really picky don't like gmail or other free email providers. The one exception is Craigslist; if I email someone with my normal email, I never get a response. I always use gmail for that.
Angostura 5y ago
In the UK, my domain name provider offers free e-mail forwarding for (I think) 10 specific e-mail address, plus a catch-all forwarder for anything else. Works quite well.
gpm 5y ago
I use migadu for this. I also use greg-*@domain instead of *@domain, since their docs claim that setting up *@domain tends to attract more spam.
- nullify88 5y ago
  Another Migadu user here slowly degoogling myself. $19 a year is a bargain for my usage and the features I get.
  - bluehatbrit 5y ago
    Also a migadu user, I'm a huge fan and can't speak highly enough of them. Their pricing model is a perfect fit for me and their support address is really quick to respond.
- _rs 5y ago
  Huh, how did I not ever hear/find out about this when I was choosing a provider... I think this is the first time I've seen them mentioned on HN, despite searching through quite a few de-googling threads. Will definitely take a closer look!
fk33 5y ago
mailbox.org also provides the functionality to use your own domain and a have a wildcard entry, where all emails go into your inbox.
sammorrowdrums 5y ago
I use ProtonMail and sign up to everything with <service>@<custom-domain> so I can track what they do with my email. It's not cheap from PM, and there are loads of hosting providers that will provide catch-all email for free with your hosting package (but with some usually pretty poor webmail client) or if you use a mail client it should work too. I like having good webmail and mail app and other things so I pay, but there are plenty of good options available. Sadly self-hosting email server is not really an option for a variety of reasons, but you should easily be able to use catch-all e-mail addresses.
8ytecoder 5y ago
Fastmail supports it. The best part about fastmail is that you can reply from the same address you got the email for. This is useful in customer service scenarios that identify your account based on email address.
- toast0 5y ago
  The reply part is somewhat new. I had to delete and re-add the wildcard to get it on my old (circa 2013) account, but very nice to have
btmiller 5y ago
My time to shine! https://btmiller.com/2019/12/12/regain-control-over-your-inbox-by-rejecting-email-with-a-custom-domain-wildcard-and-aliases.html https://btmiller.com/2019/12/12/regain-control-over-your-inb...
xyst 5y ago
The paid version of gmail (google workspace/gsuite) offers this as well (they call it "aliases"). I haven't explored the option myself, but I do recall seeing something like this in the admin panel. Whether they charge for it or not is probably something I should look into. At some point, I need to migrate away from google and build out my own personal mail server.
fooey 5y ago
https://forwardemail.net/ https://forwardemail.net/ is fantastic if all you want is to forward domains somewhere else. It's a freemium model, but I've never needed anything in the paid tier
SAI_Peregrinus 5y ago
I'm on fastmail.

I've tried something similar with Fastmail, and it works out well for the most part. I have ran into more than a couple services which won't accept email addresses not on a whitelisted domain for some reason and I had to use an @gmail.com address which forwards to my domain.

tmk1108 5y ago
Out of curiosity, are those popular services? I'm in process of setting up email on my own domain and it would suck having to fallback to Gmail if some service uses an accepted list of domains.
- bluGill 5y ago
  fastmail is reasonably popular. Gmail is bigger, but fastmail is big enough that they cannot be ignored, unlike when I ran my own personal server and often found myself in blacklists without any knowable way to get off.
- toast0 5y ago
  I've had a couple places not take my .us domain, but almost everything is fine with my .org. The places I've run into that are really picky don't like gmail or other free email providers. The one exception is Craigslist; if I email someone with my normal email, I never get a response. I always use gmail for that.

Angostura 5y ago

In the UK, my domain name provider offers free e-mail forwarding for (I think) 10 specific e-mail address, plus a catch-all forwarder for anything else. Works quite well.

gpm 5y ago

I use migadu for this. I also use greg-*@domain instead of *@domain, since their docs claim that setting up *@domain tends to attract more spam.

nullify88 5y ago
Another Migadu user here slowly degoogling myself. $19 a year is a bargain for my usage and the features I get.
- bluehatbrit 5y ago
  Also a migadu user, I'm a huge fan and can't speak highly enough of them. Their pricing model is a perfect fit for me and their support address is really quick to respond.
_rs 5y ago
Huh, how did I not ever hear/find out about this when I was choosing a provider... I think this is the first time I've seen them mentioned on HN, despite searching through quite a few de-googling threads. Will definitely take a closer look!

fk33 5y ago

mailbox.org also provides the functionality to use your own domain and a have a wildcard entry, where all emails go into your inbox.

sammorrowdrums 5y ago

I use ProtonMail and sign up to everything with <service>@<custom-domain> so I can track what they do with my email. It's not cheap from PM, and there are loads of hosting providers that will provide catch-all email for free with your hosting package (but with some usually pretty poor webmail client) or if you use a mail client it should work too. I like having good webmail and mail app and other things so I pay, but there are plenty of good options available. Sadly self-hosting email server is not really an option for a variety of reasons, but you should easily be able to use catch-all e-mail addresses.

8ytecoder 5y ago

Fastmail supports it. The best part about fastmail is that you can reply from the same address you got the email for. This is useful in customer service scenarios that identify your account based on email address.

toast0 5y ago
The reply part is somewhat new. I had to delete and re-add the wildcard to get it on my old (circa 2013) account, but very nice to have

btmiller 5y ago

My time to shine! https://btmiller.com/2019/12/12/regain-control-over-your-inbox-by-rejecting-email-with-a-custom-domain-wildcard-and-aliases.html https://btmiller.com/2019/12/12/regain-control-over-your-inb...

xyst 5y ago

The paid version of gmail (google workspace/gsuite) offers this as well (they call it "aliases"). I haven't explored the option myself, but I do recall seeing something like this in the admin panel. Whether they charge for it or not is probably something I should look into. At some point, I need to migrate away from google and build out my own personal mail server.

fooey 5y ago

https://forwardemail.net/ https://forwardemail.net/ is fantastic if all you want is to forward domains somewhere else. It's a freemium model, but I've never needed anything in the paid tier

SAI_Peregrinus 5y ago

I'm on fastmail.