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What to use instead of gmail?
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this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2025
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If you're willing to pay money for it, you can get your own domain for $2-$15 per year, then use it with pretty much any commercial email service. That way you can change email providers without changing your address.
This is my plan going forward. I'm going to suffer the inconvenience of changing my address, but only one more time, not every time I want to change providers.
In my experience, this is more a problem if you are fully running your own mail servers, not so much if you are using an established email service. My MX record reflects my email provider, and my outgoing mail goes through their servers. So I'm as trusted as they are, in general. Your mail provider should have instructions on how to set up DNS for verification.
That's a little confused. From what I remember, it's the server that matters, not the domain when being blocked. If you self-host this is a problem, but not if you use your own domain on a commercial service.
The "MX records and such" are all a function of domain management. You'll have to do this whether or not you self-host.
Some TLDs that are well known for spam get blocked. If you stick with a .com, you will usually be fine if you are using a decent mail server.
It's the server that matters, not the domain.