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Can you please provide an example of such provider?
Proton, Gmail, Outlook (or Copilot, they’re probably calling it by now), my own email service Port87, all offer custom domain support. I definitely would recommend against whatever you get offered in the checkout process of your domain name, cause it’s usually very low quality hosting.
So if I make my own domain, user@funkylemmy.com, then I can ask Gmail to host it, and when I'm tired of google, I can ask another provider?
Yep. :) All you have to do is change some DNS entries, and the new provider will start receiving mail for the same address.
Yes, exactly.
Once you own the domain, you can swap out the infrastructure behind it any time you wish. You're not locked to any email service.
Yes, you change your DNS settings so that your domain points to the new provider servers and recreate your email addresses there. You won't have the old emails unless you backed them up and restored them but the address will be the same.
Where do I begin?
I made a video for it. :) It shows how to set up Port87, but the process should be pretty similar for other providers.
https://youtu.be/C1FSFhF-1F4