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I've self hosted my email forwarding service on my own domain for over a decade, but eventually gave up because of deliverability issues that were out of my con
by shaicoleman 1y ago
I've self hosted my email forwarding service on my own domain for over a decade, but eventually gave up because of deliverability issues that were out of my control - primarily with Microsoft's email services.
I've switched 3 years ago to a hosted forwarding service forwardemail.net
Pros:
* Allows to switch email providers if needed
* Allows to forward email to multiple providers
* Allows to store backups of emails
* Allows to have emails on multiple domains for different contexts (personal/professional/projects/etc.)
* Allows to have different email addresses per service. If you get spam on that email address you can just stop forwarding emails for it.
* Allows to have reliable mail rules based on the email address
* Allows also to send emails from multiple addressses
* Most spam is filtered before it reaches the inbox
* Open source
* Would be easy to switch to a different email forwarding service if needed (or self host it).
* Excellent track record over 8+ years
Cons:
* They have the potential to snoop on your emails. Any service that's really important would have 2FA enabled, so I accept the risk.
* They have the potential to send emails on your behalf - again, they've earned my trust, so I accept the risk for that.
* Add another point possible failure. So far I haven't noticed any issues with it.
* There's greylisting that delays emails for 5 minutes if they are not on the whitelist, which affects some of less common sending services.
* In very rare cases, some services ban registering with a forwarding email addresses.
* You need to make sure you don't lose your domain. I renew it 5 years before expiry with a reputable domain registrar (NameCheap).
Overall, it's been working great for me.
- sunnybeetroot 1y agoWhat’s your plan after for after those 5 years and you can’t renew? Domain expires, someone registers it and now has access to all your accounts? Albeit maybe you won’t care because you won’t be around but I wonder how it’ll impact your family/friends