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The best of all worlds is to use your own domain, and point it at a paid professional mail service. It is reliable, and you can easily switch services in the future without changing your email address.
and you still lost all of old email if you switch to another mail service right?
The best of all worlds is to use your own domain, and point it at a paid professional mail service. It is reliable, and you can easily switch services in the future without changing your email address.
and you still lost all of old email if you switch to another mail service right?
Then you can even continue to use the new mail providers webmail, you only need to use an IMAP client once! :)
I just use FastMail with a custom domain. What's especially nice is that it lets you generate aliases that use the fastmail.com domain. Great for signing up for sites where I don't want them to be able to identify me. This wouldn't work if I was hosting my own email since you'd be able to link all my identities by matching the domain.
I love this feature so much. It also integrates into 1Password and you can automatically create a masked email on any signup. I exclusively use it now. It's awesome
Someone change my mind but I find hosting your email to be risky. I could lose my domain through social engineering or just by being in a coma and there is 0 grace period so if someone registers I lose everything.
Entrusting your email to a megacorp that has zero feedback mechanisms and just bans users whenever it feels like it is much riskier.
I have no interest in managing my own email server though.
The best of all worlds is to use your own domain, and point it at a paid professional mail service. It is reliable, and you can easily switch services in the future without changing your email address.
and you still lost all of old email if you switch to another mail service right?
The best of all worlds is to use your own domain, and point it at a paid professional mail service. It is reliable, and you can easily switch services in the future without changing your email address.
and you still lost all of old email if you switch to another mail service right?
I just use FastMail with a custom domain. What's especially nice is that it lets you generate aliases that use the fastmail.com domain. Great for signing up for sites where I don't want them to be able to identify me. This wouldn't work if I was hosting my own email since you'd be able to link all my identities by matching the domain.