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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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[–] ConstantPain 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I use Google Domains to create custom email addresses on the fly that syphons to my personal Gmail address.

If I subscribe to a service, say Netflix, I just put [email protected] and it automagically exists and redirects to my Gmail.

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[–] Dehydrated 0 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Get a domain from Njalla, set it up with Proton Mail. That's the best solution in my opinion. I don't think there's anything better for privacy.

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[–] Paragone 0 points 11 months ago

EasyDNS.ca or if they also do EasyDNS.com

GoDaddy was a bunch of sleazebags, back in the day...

Go search http://slashdot.org/ for them, and see...

not only hosting lots of sleazebags, but also having tons of compromised mail machines, so their machines were, according to what I'd read there, the source of much of the world's spam, and they wouldn't fix things.

EasyDNS was recommended by one of the SysAdmin reporters on The Register, a few years ago.

He also recommended Linode & Vultr, back then, too.

This stuff in this comment is just my opinion, and my memory of what trustworthy people were reporting a few years ago.