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Self-hosted or personal email solutions? (self.selfhosted)

submitted 11 months ago by avguser to c/selfhosted

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I have a unique name, think John Doe, and I'm hoping to create a unique and "professional" looking email account like [email protected] or [email protected]. Since my name is common, all reasonable permutations are taken. I was considering purchasing a domain with something unique, then making personal family email accounts for [email protected] [email protected] etc.

Consider that I'm starting from scratch (I am). Is there a preferred domain registrar, are GoDaddy or NameCheap good enough? Are there prebuilt services I can just point my domain to or do I need to spin up a VPS and install my own services? Are there concerns tying my accounts to a service that might go under or are some "too big to fail"?

I can expand what hangs off the domain later, but for now I just need a way to make my own email addresses and use them with the relative ease of Gmail or others. Thanks in advance!!

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[–] CosmicTurtle 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

More and more services are REQUIRING a gmail/outlook/etc. account simply because bots/scammers bombard their services. It's their cheap captcha.

I'm seeing it more and more and it infuriates me to no end.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

As if a scammer can't get a Gmail address. 😄 What does that even prove?

[–] CosmicTurtle 1 points 11 months ago

I think the point is that a scammer may have one or two. But not millions of Gmail addresses.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I keep seeing people say this but I've yet to encounter it even once. I fully believe it happens with non-com/net/org TLDs but I've been using my .org as my daily driver for 2 decades and have never had it rejected or denied.

[–] CosmicTurtle 3 points 11 months ago

The last one I encountered was one of the AI tools. I can't remember which one. They are popping up like fucking Starbucks now.

They required using your Gmail, Outlook, or Discord credentials.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

You mean those websites that instead of email input fields there are multiple horizontal stripes saying "Login with Google" and such?

I hate them, too... but I suppose it's for the mobile crowd that don't make distinctions between sms, fb/whatsapp messages, and email altogether.

I wonder if all those gmail accounts will be seen like yahoo addresses one day.