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I agree. Using a custom email sounds cool first, but sucks in real life when you have to give someone your mail address and they don't understand how to write i

I agree. Using a custom email sounds cool first, but sucks in real life when you have to give someone your mail address and they don't understand how to write it, what it means, how it works, and when it is rejected by the system they're typing it into. That's the reason I'm migrating back to a normal mail address.

mrweasel 3y ago
The older I get the more I kinda regret getting a custom domain for my email. I do like that I can take my email with me if I want to change service provider, or I can do the hosting myself, if I really wanted to. It's nice to be in control, but sometimes, sometimes it would be nice to just have a stupid generic email account and not having to bother with hosting companies. There is a certain silly charm of being presented with a 20 year old Yahoo! Mail account or someone who insist that their Hotmail address is just fine. These people do not worry about email and that must be really nice. One word of warning regarding when using a custom domain: Be really careful about giving out email address to others. I have my own, that of my sister and one for a friend that I haven't seen i five years. The coordination required when/if you need to move providers due to e.g. cost or policy changes can be a nightmare.
- tamimio 3y ago
  > but sometimes, sometimes it would be nice to just have a stupid generic email account Ok.. then have one then, you can have both you know, one generic and other with custom domain at the same time, use the generic one in the services as if you never owned a domain, and the other as if you don’t have generic, I don’t see the issue here.
vidarh 3y ago
I've had my firstname @ my lastname .com for 25+ years now, and it's never been more tedious than repeating it once. People deal with other domains in e-mail addresses all the time.

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I agree. Using a custom email sounds cool first, but sucks in real life when you have to give someone your mail address and they don't understand how to write i

by EspressoGPT 3y ago

mrweasel 3y ago
The older I get the more I kinda regret getting a custom domain for my email. I do like that I can take my email with me if I want to change service provider, or I can do the hosting myself, if I really wanted to. It's nice to be in control, but sometimes, sometimes it would be nice to just have a stupid generic email account and not having to bother with hosting companies. There is a certain silly charm of being presented with a 20 year old Yahoo! Mail account or someone who insist that their Hotmail address is just fine. These people do not worry about email and that must be really nice. One word of warning regarding when using a custom domain: Be really careful about giving out email address to others. I have my own, that of my sister and one for a friend that I haven't seen i five years. The coordination required when/if you need to move providers due to e.g. cost or policy changes can be a nightmare.
- tamimio 3y ago
  > but sometimes, sometimes it would be nice to just have a stupid generic email account Ok.. then have one then, you can have both you know, one generic and other with custom domain at the same time, use the generic one in the services as if you never owned a domain, and the other as if you don’t have generic, I don’t see the issue here.
vidarh 3y ago
I've had my firstname @ my lastname .com for 25+ years now, and it's never been more tedious than repeating it once. People deal with other domains in e-mail addresses all the time.