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I was thinking about how to improve my email situation, because at the moment I am using an address of a commercial mail provider, which obviously brings some concerns of lock-in.

While fully self-hosting the email is an option, I am a bit wary of this, because having a working email is very critical and I do trust the commercial providers to give better uptime and reliability than my old server in the closet. Does anyone have experience hosting an email service and what is it like/could you recommend it?

The other option that I am more inclined to is having the email hosted by some cloud provider, but using an address under my personal domain name. The point would be of course that I could change the email provider while keeping the address. Which providers supporting this could you recommend? What is the process like linking a domain to an email host?

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[–] tburkhol@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I started using https://purelymail.com/ because they're $10/year. Been happy with them, but I don't use/need any fancy features. Hosted on AWS, if you care about that. Their domain instructions are https://purelymail.com/docs/domainDocs

[–] python@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

+1 for Purelymail! Cool thing is that the 10$/year is also for unlimited domains and subdomains, so I have split my mails into a bunch of different inboxes. Makes it a lot easier to filter out spam and figure out which services sell email addresses to advertisers

[–] Gobbel2000@programming.dev 3 points 3 days ago

Thanks, the docs you linked really made it clear how the domain is connected in practice.