I’m looking to use a custom domain to set up an email address. Really, I’ve got a couple of questions:
How do you come up with a good domain name? I don’t really know what I want it to be - I feel like “[firstname]@[fullname./com]” looks a little strange myself, but I can’t really think of anything else. Does anyone have some good examples or general ideas?
Assuming you own a domain, which email provider is best to use? I’m leaning towards Proton Mail at the moment, but I know there’s some others out there too like Skiff and Fastmail. Any personal recommendations?
I hosted my own mail server late 90s. It’s a drag but not the end of the world. You want it locked down. There’s many things that legitimately port scan but once the MX records went live port scanning went through the roof.
I bought a domain from cheaper domains, connected it to paid ProtonMail and turned on Catch-All emails with the SimpleLogin Proton plugin thingy.
I love it even more than I thought I would, I just make up a new email for everyone (I don’t need to create the address in advance) , and can turn them off individually, and will know who’s leaked my info because the address will be [email protected] or whatever.
I’m looking to use a custom domain to set up an email address. Really, I’ve got a couple of questions:
How do you come up with a good domain name? I don’t really know what I want it to be - I feel like “[firstname]@[fullname./com]” looks a little strange myself, but I can’t really think of anything else. Does anyone have some good examples or general ideas?
Assuming you own a domain, which email provider is best to use? I’m leaning towards Proton Mail at the moment, but I know there’s some others out there too like Skiff and Fastmail. Any personal recommendations?
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I hosted my own mail server late 90s. It’s a drag but not the end of the world. You want it locked down. There’s many things that legitimately port scan but once the MX records went live port scanning went through the roof.
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Used to work at a big ISP, and before the days of Outlook 365, there were 5 engineers working flat out on running the staff email servers.
Last time I heard from them, they got retrained and now look after the entire Microsoft 365 tenancy for the whole organization.
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Same for ventra. Can’t be bothered hosting my own mail server any more. Bought firstnamelastname.com about 15 years ago.
Thank you so much! That’s super useful :)
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I bought a domain from cheaper domains, connected it to paid ProtonMail and turned on Catch-All emails with the SimpleLogin Proton plugin thingy. I love it even more than I thought I would, I just make up a new email for everyone (I don’t need to create the address in advance) , and can turn them off individually, and will know who’s leaked my info because the address will be [email protected] or whatever.
Ah yeah, I watched a video about doing something like that pretty recently - thank you for the response! It’s such a good idea