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Someone please tell me if this is sane and viable. I'm starting to do this because of the large number of domains I own and my registrar recently getting rid o

Someone please tell me if this is sane and viable. I'm starting to do this because of the large number of domains I own and my registrar recently getting rid of free email hosting. For incoming mail, I'm hosting it all virtually on a home server. I set my MX record to my home IP address, point a CNAME of "mail.domain.com" to it. I do letsencrypt on a cert for each domain. This has been working fine for the 3 domains I've tested. For outgoing mail, because I send so few from these domains, I'm using Amazon SES. I looked at setting up DKM to avoid exactly what the author describes about blackholing. Setting it up for multiple domains on one IP made my head spin. I might send 1-2 emails per month on these domains, so at 10 cents per email, that's quite affordable.

shepherdjerred 3y ago
Have you considered Fastmail? I switched to it a few years back and it works excellently.
- snapetom 3y ago
  Looked into it. It's more than I need, and it's got the same issue as my registrar's paid plans. The price is per domain, per user. For ~10 domains I rarely use at $5 per user, per month, per domain, it's not worth it.
  - shepherdjerred 3y ago
    Do you need different user accounts, or just different addresses? I'm able to user any address with my domains, but I just pay for the one user account. If you do have 10 domains that would be quite a lot still.
    - snapetom 3y ago
      Many different domains. For example, both my wife and I have professional/consulting/personal consulting sites and we both do artsy stuff as a side hobby and business so that's two separate domains eachs. Each one has 1-2 emails tops. I have a couple of domains that I use for recon and testing. I can have a ton of addresses there. My friends and I are trying out two side ventures, and there's about 10 addresses, but still two additional domains.
pomian 3y ago
That sounds perfect. We had to recently move out from godaddy, for the same reason - no more free emails, in spite of a while pile of domains. (And, there is zero useful tech support - used to be good.) I ended up at Hostinger, which is typical of the Dutch, a good, steady, reliable, and easy alternate. Someone needs to your domain name, so may as well take advantage of their infrastructure for outgoing email for example. The problem I find, is when everything is working well, after a few years, it is very hard to remember how you set things up, and almost have to start over.
- snapetom 3y ago
  Will look at Hostinger, thanks. > it is very hard to remember how you set things up, and almost have to start over. Same issue. I have an absolutely terrible memory. That's why I do all the setup and configuration through Ansible.
Ir0nMan 3y ago
Take a look at Migadu.com and their low volume plan.

shepherdjerred 3y ago

Have you considered Fastmail? I switched to it a few years back and it works excellently.

snapetom 3y ago
Looked into it. It's more than I need, and it's got the same issue as my registrar's paid plans. The price is per domain, per user. For ~10 domains I rarely use at $5 per user, per month, per domain, it's not worth it.
- shepherdjerred 3y ago
  Do you need different user accounts, or just different addresses? I'm able to user any address with my domains, but I just pay for the one user account. If you do have 10 domains that would be quite a lot still.
  - snapetom 3y ago
    Many different domains. For example, both my wife and I have professional/consulting/personal consulting sites and we both do artsy stuff as a side hobby and business so that's two separate domains eachs. Each one has 1-2 emails tops. I have a couple of domains that I use for recon and testing. I can have a ton of addresses there. My friends and I are trying out two side ventures, and there's about 10 addresses, but still two additional domains.

pomian 3y ago

That sounds perfect. We had to recently move out from godaddy, for the same reason - no more free emails, in spite of a while pile of domains. (And, there is zero useful tech support - used to be good.) I ended up at Hostinger, which is typical of the Dutch, a good, steady, reliable, and easy alternate. Someone needs to your domain name, so may as well take advantage of their infrastructure for outgoing email for example. The problem I find, is when everything is working well, after a few years, it is very hard to remember how you set things up, and almost have to start over.

snapetom 3y ago
Will look at Hostinger, thanks. > it is very hard to remember how you set things up, and almost have to start over. Same issue. I have an absolutely terrible memory. That's why I do all the setup and configuration through Ansible.

Ir0nMan 3y ago

Take a look at Migadu.com and their low volume plan.