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Just curious, where do you host your catchall email domain?

qzx_pierri 4y ago
Nice try
MonkeyClub 4y ago
Not OP, but thought I'd chip in since I do the same since I left Gmail. I just use a random cheap domain, registered through Gandi. This includes a couple of 3 GB mailboxes each with unlimited aliases, which is quite adequate if you don't use your email as a file store (much). I suppose the "right" way would be through something like Fastmail instead, but the simple arrangement above has worked fine thus far.
- pedro2 4y ago
  I also use Gandi somewhat, but beware Gandi doesn't allow catch-all. It does allow, however, wildcards in aliases, which allow a semi-catchall, since alias have to have a minimum of two characters besides the asterisk.
neogodless 4y ago
It doesn't seem popular (here at HN, like Fastmail) but the bang for the buck from NameCheap "private email"[0] is pretty solid. I started using them years ago as an alternative to GoDaddy for domain names, and more recently for hosting my email. At little as $1.24/month for a 5GB mailbox with custom domain names / catch-all. They use something called Jellyfish for spam detection and it's been pretty impressive. A few false negatives but overall catches most of it. And you can use their webmail or any IMAP/POP3/SMTP client. [0] https://www.namecheap.com/hosting/email/ https://www.namecheap.com/hosting/email/
- criddell 4y ago
  Have you moved a largish email archive from Gmail to Namecheap? I see they tell you to do it with your client but that seems like it might be unreliable when you have gigabytes of mail to move.
  - neogodless 4y ago
    I'm moving some email now using Thunderbird. It's slow and I don't have huge amounts (Gmail tells me 1.39GB). I'm sure it's possible but it might take an hour or so. A bit slow but I don't think it's unreliable. If it is, that's scary because how would I know :) Just moved a folder with 1037 emails and it has 1037 on NameCheap now. Seems like it moved them all! (And it didn't take too long. It's moving a bunch of subfolders now.)
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Nice try

Not OP, but thought I'd chip in since I do the same since I left Gmail. I just use a random cheap domain, registered through Gandi. This includes a couple of 3 GB mailboxes each with unlimited aliases, which is quite adequate if you don't use your email as a file store (much). I suppose the "right" way would be through something like Fastmail instead, but the simple arrangement above has worked fine thus far.

pedro2 4y ago
I also use Gandi somewhat, but beware Gandi doesn't allow catch-all. It does allow, however, wildcards in aliases, which allow a semi-catchall, since alias have to have a minimum of two characters besides the asterisk.

neogodless 4y ago

It doesn't seem popular (here at HN, like Fastmail) but the bang for the buck from NameCheap "private email"[0] is pretty solid. I started using them years ago as an alternative to GoDaddy for domain names, and more recently for hosting my email. At little as $1.24/month for a 5GB mailbox with custom domain names / catch-all. They use something called Jellyfish for spam detection and it's been pretty impressive. A few false negatives but overall catches most of it. And you can use their webmail or any IMAP/POP3/SMTP client. [0] https://www.namecheap.com/hosting/email/ https://www.namecheap.com/hosting/email/

criddell 4y ago
Have you moved a largish email archive from Gmail to Namecheap? I see they tell you to do it with your client but that seems like it might be unreliable when you have gigabytes of mail to move.
- neogodless 4y ago
  I'm moving some email now using Thunderbird. It's slow and I don't have huge amounts (Gmail tells me 1.39GB). I'm sure it's possible but it might take an hour or so. A bit slow but I don't think it's unreliable. If it is, that's scary because how would I know :) Just moved a folder with 1037 emails and it has 1037 on NameCheap now. Seems like it moved them all! (And it didn't take too long. It's moving a bunch of subfolders now.)
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