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submitted 18 hours ago by Gobbel2000@programming.dev to c/selfhosting@slrpnk.net

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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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[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 6 points 18 hours ago

A lot of providers support custom domains, I'm currently using mailbox.org, used proton, zoho and google in the past. The process is usually just adding some dns records to link your domain to your mail provider and to verify that the domain belongs to you, every provider should have a list of instructions on how to do it.