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Re: Reasons to not use your own domain for email

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Post by 8fingerlouie »

DO use a your own domain. Advantages far outweigh the disadvantages. Instead of being at the mercy of whatever email provider you choose, you're free to move your domain where ever you want, without updating "a million" senders.

DO NOT host your own email server though. A couple of decades ago it made perfect sense to do so, but these days it's simply not worth the trouble. Instead use Google/Outlook/Apple/Whatever to host your custom domain and use their offerings with your custom domain.

My personal domain is hosted by mxroute.com, which has served me well for a lot of years by now. Unlimited email accounts and the only restriction is storage, which i can upgrade. Very little downtime (none i've noticed).

All that's left is to make a backup with regular intervals, which i to do a small local machine using imapsync, which then in turn makes backups of the emails (and regular data) to a local drive and a cloud backup.

Re: Reasons to not use your own domain for email

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Post by Brajeshwar »

I’d say there are many better reasons to use your domain than not using one. But then, that would be just for a few and may not cater to everyone.

For one, I always have a heightened sense of admiration for someone whose email comes from their personal or family domain, “Ah! A man/woman of culture.”

Many have already suggested good ideas about death in the comments; here is what I believe. If you are a commoner like most of us, others won’t care enough to wait for your domain to expire and start reading your email. On the other hand, if you become significant enough that people and organizations are waiting to read your emails after capturing your domain after you die (and then lose your domain after years of inactivity), you would have already taken care of that in many possible ways - technically, legally, etc.

I had used my domain (a personal .com) since 2001 and switched to a family domain (another .com) around 2005-2006. A few others use it as a family domain name, and it is expected to increase once the extended family realizes that we own a cool-family-domain-name. I’m hoping that it will likely live on after I die. Unless I die suddenly and live long enough to realize that my family’s younger generation believes in “not worth sending emails from our domain and use a generic one," I will start thinking of an alternative plan.

Re: Reasons to not use your own domain for email

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Post by Yizahi »

traceroute66 wrote: post #39

> Reasons to not use your own domain for email Aside from the fact that the author of the blog doesn't really provide any "reasons" in their blog ... There are ZERO reasons not to use your own domain name for email. The biggest reason TO use your own domain name is that you are not subject to the corporate whims of your ISP, cloud-email provider or whatever. You get to choose, and you get to choose when to switch. Th…

What about blacklists? I read that it is a huge problem with custom domains.

Re: Reasons to not use your own domain for email

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Post by ajwilson »

Yizahi wrote: post #95

I sometimes wonder if I should set up email with custom domain, but then I read how it will be quickly blacklisted by everyone and your mail simply won't be reaching anyone. That is the biggest problem I think, not the domain payments.

If you're hosting the email server yourself sure it can be problematic, but i've never had delivery/recieving problems with a service like Fastmail.

Re: Reasons to not use your own domain for email

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Post by westernpopular »

nurettin wrote: post #85
sschueller wrote: post #2

I strongly disagree. - Google has on multiple occasions terminated accounts for no reason with no recourse. You loose access you can't do anything. If you have your own domain you can at least set it up somewhere else. How many website would you need to update with your new email and how would you get thay extra factor mail? - If I die I don't care if someone else reads my mail, I'm dead. Also you can add a dead man'…

> If I die I don't care if someone else reads my mail, I'm dead. Mom, why did grandfather let others take over his online bank account and send his inheritance money overseas? He just didn't care, honey. He was a good man, but he simply did not care.

If getting access to your email is all it takes for someone to empty your bank account, you need to find a different bank.

Re: Reasons to not use your own domain for email

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Post by mingus88 »

bruce343434 wrote: post #88
nurettin wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If I die I don't care if someone else reads my mail, I'm dead. Mom, why did grandfather let others take over his online bank account and send his inheritance money overseas? He just didn't care, honey. He was a good man, but he simply did not care.

I think that scenario requires someone registering the domain and hijacking the identity a few days after death? Quite unlikely it seems.

My mother in law’s bank account was drained within a week of her passing.

Evidently someone at the hospital had to have been involved, although we never learned the vector.

It’s really not a stretch to imagine a sophisticated attacker who specializes in identity theft paying off hospital staff for access to dead patient’s info, even phones. It’s the last thing on the families minds.

We already know that insiders at cell providers are working with SIM swappers to compromise SMS verification. Why is it unlikely for hospital staff to do the same?

Re: Reasons to not use your own domain for email

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Post by akho »

traceroute66 wrote: post #39

> Reasons to not use your own domain for email Aside from the fact that the author of the blog doesn't really provide any "reasons" in their blog ... There are ZERO reasons not to use your own domain name for email. The biggest reason TO use your own domain name is that you are not subject to the corporate whims of your ISP, cloud-email provider or whatever. You get to choose, and you get to choose when to switch. Th…

> The only thing you should NOT do is attempt to host your own email server on a home internet connection.

You can tunnel the relevant ports through a VPS though.

There are quite a few more things that you shouldn't do.

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