I'm a happy fastmail customer using 4 custom domains. They haven't let me down once.
Microsoft is killing custom domain names in Outlook.com
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#102I'm a happy fastmail customer using 4 custom domains. They haven't let me down once.
Yeah, this. I found Fastmail on HN and moved over all my domains and just use catch alls for them with a single mailbox. Works smoother than I could’ve ever imagined, including being able to reply from all my custom domains from my same inbox. Highly recommend.
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#103This is a serious limitation. You used to be able to point up to 99 email addresses, from any domain you wanted, to your outlook.com account. It removes the value from this service.
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#104This wasn't a free feature right? It was something people were paying for with 365Whatver packages? Why would they get rid of it?
Article gives little/no insight.
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#105I’ve been using the custom email domain feature that comes with iCloud+ for some time now, and have had zero issues with it. I imagine many of us here already pay the measly 99¢ fee for additional storage, but I was unaware of that addition until recently. Awfully easy to do, even if you’re wary of DNS. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212514
I host about a half dozen on Office 365. When Apple came out, I switched my wife over to iCloud, since we were paying for apple anyways. Big mistake. Spam filtering on Apple is absolutely horrific. The volume of crap she started to receive was amazing. Flipped back.
To contrast, I set up a brand new email and slowly migrated my critical access to the new iCloud domain. Virtually all my other sign-up accounts are still routing to gmail, I just left that dumpster fire to burn and re-access only when needed.
My spam inbound rate has been non-existent.
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
I host about a half dozen on Office 365. When Apple came out, I switched my wife over to iCloud, since we were paying for apple anyways. Big mistake. Spam filtering on Apple is absolutely horrific. The volume of crap she started to receive was amazing. Flipped back.
To contrast, I set up a brand new email and slowly migrated my critical access to the new iCloud domain. Virtually all my other sign-up accounts are still routing to gmail, I just left that dumpster fire to burn and re-access only when needed. My spam inbound rate has been non-existent.
In your case, gmail is the dumpster fire?
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're not paying for forwarding, you're paying for someone to host a whole email stack for you (and the associated dev work such as on clients). You can choose to use a "free" provider like Gmail if you're ok with paying with your data and a lack of features (such as not being able to use a custom domain). Also by the way, Fastmail is half the price you list at $5/month (might have to prepay a year to get that price…
> You're not paying for forwarding, you're paying for someone to host a whole email stack for you (and the associated dev work such as on clients). I know, and I love ProtonMail (for example) for that, but my use would just be forwarding and not storage or access. In my use case it would feel like overpaying. > You can choose to use a "free" provider like Gmail if you're ok with paying with your data and a lack of fe…
> I know, and I love ProtonMail (for example) for that, but my use would just be forwarding and not storage or access. In my use case it would feel like overpaying.
It sounded to me like you were _sending_ email as well from your custom domain, which is (in my opinion) the hardest and most expensive part of running a mail service.
If you're only going to use it for forwarding you could just use something like Cloudflare's service as you previously mentioned.
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
To contrast, I set up a brand new email and slowly migrated my critical access to the new iCloud domain. Virtually all my other sign-up accounts are still routing to gmail, I just left that dumpster fire to burn and re-access only when needed. My spam inbound rate has been non-existent.
In your case, gmail is the dumpster fire?
It was the most sensible way to escape nearly 5000 unread emails, and avoid that issue from recurring; iCloud stays at inbox zero.
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#109TL;DR is: If you're interested in inexpensive email hosting for custom domains, consider OpenSRS . Recently Google stopped support for custom domains for free*, so I moved my domains recently for a similar reason. I have a couple domains and they all point back to a few mailboxes. Many of the services I looked at were going to charge me per domain per mailbox not just per mailbox so the prices were artificially high.…
I set up a gmail adress, and routed all my domains through CloudFlares new Email product. It's free, and lets you route email to as many addresses as you want (? I think...) to other adresses, in this case my Gmail account. I then set up my GMail account with one profile per incoming address, and to automatically use the corresponding address when replying.
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#110I've mostly stopped using free services wherever feasible. You get what you pay for. The only free thing I really don't wanna give up is Google Photos. It's really convenient to just search "health insurance card" and the picture of my card pops up. Likewise for "apple pie", "sunset", "statue", etc.
Surely there is better way to store important documents than Google Photos. That Google is able to identify the type of document that is uploaded to Google Photos is even more terrifying.