Are you buying domains for fun? you can setup email easily
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#2Any possibility to self host?
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#3Advanced price is NaN
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#4Can someone comment on the security aspect of forwarding mail? Does it add another layer of complexity/attack surface or is it negligible vis a vi the added privacy.
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#5I've been using forwardemail.net for years. When I started the project was a few scripts on github and it's grown into a fully-fledged (excellent) product. If you're in the market for this I highly recommend you check them out. You can get pretty far with the free plan, and the paid is priced just right ($3/month right now) so that's what I do to support them.
I have also used ImprovMX and had good success there, although I ended up leaving because the free plan was too limiting and the paid plan was too much ($10/month last I checked).
Both services have great UX. It's hard to go wrong. I'll probably try out Mailway as well just for comparison.
Note I'm not affiliated in any way with forwardemail or ImprovMX, just a happy user.
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#6Any possibility to self host?
You can self host forwardemail.net: https://github.com/forwardemail/forwardemail.net
I haven't tried it myself but the maintainer is prominent in open source so I'd be pretty optimistic.
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#7Advanced price is NaN
Because it’s the “contact us” for pricing model.
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#8Are there any solutions out there (FOSS highly preferred) that convert email into a REST/JSON API? What I really want is a traditional email account but headless (a frontend UI that works would be great, but there are plenty of those around already). I have a bunch of other projects I'm working on at the moment so I haven't built that myself, but I've gotten close a number of times. I would pay $3/month for a small account like that, going up to $10/month for lots of storage (but I won't need much personally).
I've heard that Gmail actually has a pretty good API, but I haven't looked into it. Has anyone tried using gmail from the API?
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#9Can someone comment on the security aspect of forwarding mail? Does it add another layer of complexity/attack surface or is it negligible vis a vi the added privacy.
Yes there is a bit of added complexity. By SMTP's nature, the forwarding mail server will need to receive your email, before they can forward it to you. For that reason if you use a service for forwarding, you'll need to make sure you trust the company running this service, or only use this service for low-damage forwarding.
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#10My domain registrar (Namecheap) provides mail forwarding for free and I've not needed more than that.