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I would like to ask my fellow soylentists... What do you do for an email solution?
For almost 20 years, I have had my own personal domains along with corresponding websites, email, and any other needed service. As I am older now, I no longer need any of the visibility of my own website; I do not need it for getting new jobs, or to host any application or service. However, I still need email. My current ISP has annoyed me with rising fees and a lack of any service (not surprisingly, it went downhill really fast once their business was merged with another.)
So, I am looking to drop everything except the actual domains and the email, (not to mention change providers.) What solutions does everyone else use? Are you happy with your provider?
The biggest feature I am looking for is some type of "catchall" email address. While I realize this means a lot more spam, I am already filtering the 99% of that out. For years, I have created many single use email addresses for various websites. (e.g. keyword@mydomain.xxx ) IMO, this creates better security, because anyone trying to access my accounts need to know the email address I used as well as the password, and I also find out which websites sell my email address to others or get breached. It seems that the majority of sites do not have this simple feature anymore.
Due to my multiple handles, most of the simple email sites will not work for me. Not to mention sites that charge per email handle are not very good either. While I can consolidate with a catch-all address, this is not a preferred method.
I prefer POP3 so that I can have multiple devices access my email and webmail is a plus but not required.
So does anyone know of a email site that will fit my needs? Or is my best chance to create my own email server on a linode VPS? (Though I would prefer a simple premade solution instead of maintaining my own server at this point.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 14 2019, @02:46AM
This is a bit hard to answer what is best because you need to answer the question: how many addresses need to receive, how many need to send, and how many people need access? It is important to keep in mind that for many email providers, you only need an "account" or "box" or whatever they call it for an individual person and addresses are treated as different entities and sometimes they are split between sending and receiving. For example, I have a number of domains that need zero outgoing email addresses. For those, my domain name registrar provides free email forwarding for arbitrary email addresses to the address of my choice. For other domains, I have a number of incoming addresses but anything outgoing comes from the same single address that is accessible for multiple people. For those, I either share the one sending box (password and everything) among the people who access them, or have an incoming alias that is mapped to their accounts, depending on the use. If the needs get to big or complex, I just add them to a mail server on Linode.
That is a rough start, but should give you some idea. for next steps or questions.