Leaving Gmail? Get your own domain first

2 days ago by CAVOK to c/europe

Before you compare EU email providers, get your own domain. It is the single change that lets you switch providers later without redoing the painful migration.
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HowRu68 18 points 2 days ago

I've been thinking about registrating my own domain ( again) but I can't settle or lack imagination for an easy recognisable name format for us. Anyone ideas?

Also there's a connection to selfhosted here, but I need to delve a bit deeper maybe.

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powdermilkman 11 points 2 days ago

I made mine firstname@lastname.me but I also have it set up with proton Mail as a catchall email address so I can give out literallyanything@lastname.me and it all goes to the same inbox with the ability to filter and send some addresses strait to trash.

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bus_factor 6 points 2 days ago

I used to do that, but it caught far too much spam sent to random usernames on every domain. Now I have a fixed prefix and do prefix+literallyanything@lastname.me, which gives the same benefits with less spam.

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powdermilkman 3 points a day ago

Maybe I'm just lucky, I don't get spam like that... Yet. I've had that setup for a few years now though.

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Pruning9165 1 point 18 hours ago

On all my domains I always get spam at info@domain because the lazy marketers just scrape a list of domains and assume most of them has info@

It's actually a honeypot that will add the sender to a blocklist

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