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Do your emails ever end up in people's spam folders, or bounce outright? Considering this setup for myself
by awestroke 4y ago
Do your emails ever end up in people's spam folders, or bounce outright? Considering this setup for myself
- sph 4y agoI had a couple people tell me my mails went to spam, but I reckon it was just an excuse for not answering. Apart from that, I never had any problem at all in the 5 years I've used them with a custom domain. Their spam system works great but needs some breaking in: to train it, you need to have marked and deleted 200 spam emails. Only when you delete spam, the system updates its filter. I had some annoying spam that kept landing in my inbox, I had to create an automated "send to spam" rule until the personal spam filter started kicking in.
- ziml77 4y agoI've never had a problem with sending or receiving with this setup. FastMail's email servers have plenty of good reputation so they're not blocked. The only issues I've really had are general custom domain & address choice issues: Choosing to use me@myfullname.tld was not the best idea. A very tiny number of sites stupidly reject the use of a 2 letter username in the email address. Easily solved by setting up an alias of mail@myfullname.tld though. If I were starting over I would have just made mail@myfullname.tld the main address (and I would have aliased male@myfullname.tld). That also makes it a bit easier for humans to read too. Only 2 letters before the @ blends in too much. Address hiding that many sites do fails to hide anything. Many times when you log into a site, it will display your email address in a way that's meant to avoid people seeing it over your shoulder. But most sites that do that only hide the username. So I'll see things like m*e@myfullname.tld