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Self-hosted or personal email solutions? (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by avguser@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I have a unique name, think John Doe, and I'm hoping to create a unique and "professional" looking email account like johndoe@gmail.com or john@doe.com. Since my name is common, all reasonable permutations are taken. I was considering purchasing a domain with something unique, then making personal family email accounts for john@mydoe.com jane@mydoe.com etc.

Consider that I'm starting from scratch (I am). Is there a preferred domain registrar, are GoDaddy or NameCheap good enough? Are there prebuilt services I can just point my domain to or do I need to spin up a VPS and install my own services? Are there concerns tying my accounts to a service that might go under or are some "too big to fail"?

I can expand what hangs off the domain later, but for now I just need a way to make my own email addresses and use them with the relative ease of Gmail or others. Thanks in advance!!

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[-] syd@lemy.lol 19 points 10 months ago

Yes you need a domain for sure. But you don’t need a server for it, in fact I don’t recommend trying to self-host mail server.

You can use Tuta, Proton Mail, Gmail or iCloud Mail services. You just need to add some DNS records to the domain to redirect mail provider.

[-] SupraMario@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Cloudflare + protonmail is my setup. Works great and if you buy like 2 years it's pretty cheap.

[-] syd@lemy.lol 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah I'm also using Proton but I will switch to Tuta because it has more features I think.

[-] SupraMario@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I just wanted mail and privacy directed.

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