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Could people who do this talk a bit more about how the outgoing side works out? Is there a way to do this where I don't have to jump through hoops just to hit
by throw_away 5y ago
Could people who do this talk a bit more about how the outgoing side works out? Is there a way to do this where I don't have to jump through hoops just to hit reply to a message & have it come from my custom domain?
Ideally, what I'm looking for:
* wildcard routing
* keep existing archive of mail
* easy to use (replies make sense on mobile and web interface)
* not have to replace google identity (for YouTube prefs + 3rd party sign-ins)
There was this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30104783 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30104783 about how a gsuite account could be converted to a free one, which sounds like it could work with this, but I'm still unsure about how sending mail would work out.
The next best alternative I see is fastmail, but that saves me just $12/year + I have to do a lengthy export + I'm not sure how my google accounts will work out.
- 617a6572 5y agoIn the past, I utilized a standard Gmail account (no G Suite/Workspace) and had mail forwarding set up with a domain I had in Google domains. It supports using a wildcard (any email@domain.com). In terms of sending email as the alias, this is also easily doable: https://support.google.com/domains/answer/9437157?hl=en https://support.google.com/domains/answer/9437157?hl=en
- extra88 5y agoLast time I looked, your actual Gmail address was still included in such outgoing emails, the From address may be the alias but the Gmail address was also present in the headers.
- jhart99 5y agoI do this with ImprovMx. You set up the inbound to forward to some other address. For outbound you can either pay them or set up GMail to do outbound aliasing. It works fine for me, but there is some lag on inbound emails.