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Is it "safe" to use an own domain for Mails?

a year ago by fluffy to c/privacy

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Hey there,

i have a domain (.de-domain, registered with netcup) that i would like to use for my email-provider, but i am hesitant.

Why i am hesitant: I don't want that people might be able to find out my name/adress that is registered with my domain. If some service does not need my personal data, i simply don't want them to be able to access them. It's as simple as that.

I read that a whois-check could reveal my data, but the situation seems more complicated. At least, i couldn't reveal my personal data with a whois-check.

Why i would like to use my own domain: I want to be more independent from my mail-provider.

I am not that tech-savvy, so sorry if this is a silly question. I tried searching, but didn't found anything, probably because keywords like domain bring up lots of different topics.

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bulwark 14 points a year ago

I self hosted my own email server for a while. I don't know how other domain resellers work but namecheap has hardly any info on the whois query. The reason I gave up self hosting email was because all my emails kept going to spam for everyone I emailed. I think there's a way to advertise your server to mark it as not spam for Gmail, but I don't remember exactly. Plus incoming email needs spam protection.

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fluffy 11 points a year ago

thanks for the info. i am planning to use my own domain with an mail provider instead of self-hosting an email server. Reason beeing that in case i want to change my mail provider, i just move my domain to a new service provider instead of having to change my mail adress everywhere.

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rollin 1 point a year ago

This is what I'm doing. I recently switched from the email service offered by my web host to Zoho Mail. I pay them $12 a year for a couple of gigabytes storage (which isn't a whole lot but enough for me and I'm cheap).

As someone else says elsewhere, as well as changing the MX records to the new server, you need to add SPF, DKIM and D-MARC records in your DNS to ensure mail you send is accepted by the receiver's mail server.

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A_norny_mousse 1 point a year ago

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the_crotch 7 points a year ago

Just change your mx records to point at the new provider, no redirect necessary

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