I recently started looking into hosting my own email, and the suggestions I got were very encouraging, with a lot of easy solutions paired with some unavoidable gotchas.

It is has become apparent that for me to do this right, I need my own domain name, maybe a VPS or host.

I was about to purchase from Infomaniak, which also had an email solution I liked, but one the prices in euro was throwing me off and two it defeats the purpose of controlling and running my own internet services.

So, I will skip the email hosting and give a try at running my own.

Still, is Infomaniak a good buy? I am going crazy thinking up a good name, and settles on the extension me since it will be a personal thing, but not use my real name since I am going to avoid that shit until I really need to.

Any help would be welcome. Thank you.

UPDATE: I bought a domain name off of Porkbun, which was surprisingly pleasant. I am a sucker for cute guided experiences.

  • Monkey With A Shell@lemmy.socdojo.com
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    1 year ago

    When I first started with self hosting an easy, and actually free last I looked, way to get email at your own domain was via ZoHo. Fairly simple way to start. True self hosting of email can be a pretty arcane bunch of work, starting with that most home connections are on the Spamhause ZEN list. So far the easiest have been either with Neth Server or using a dockerized mailcow, one is bulky and rather opaque, but easy totie to a domain, the second is a bit more comprehensive but less user friendly sometimes. Plenty of other ways of course all the way to rolling your own from dovecot/postfix on out if inclined.

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    1 year ago

    (The following is second-hand experience) You should google “DKIM and SPF” before you embark on this journey. The tl;dr of it is that senders of email can (and do) end up blacklisted based on the IP Address of their mail server. If you run your mail server on (say) a.b.c.xx and a known spammer happens to rent a vps from the same provider at a.b.c.yy, you both end up blacklisted. The spammer moves on, whereas your emails fail t make it through other folks’ spam filters, and there won’t be anything you can do about it.

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    1 year ago

    Thx for mentioning infomaniak, I’m looking for alternatives to Mailbox.org as they had to increase their prices. I’ve tried self hosting but somehow it always has been a hassle, might be just me though. Also mailinabox wasn’t around back then. I’ve got my domain at namecheap, they’ve got all the tools and a super cheap whoisguard service. Prices depend on the tld you’re looking for, so you’ll have to look it up.

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      1 year ago

      Hm, I could have looked at namecheap too. I ended up going with Porkbun because of well… it is cute and lovely. Not a great reason to choose a service, but it came highly recommended.