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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: 2) by bradley13 on Wednesday August 14 2019, @07:58AM (2 children)
Gmail and G-Suite are great, unless you care about your privacy.
We moved to a local ISP who provides unlimited email addresses that we can configure ourselves, including forward-only and auto-answer-only addresses. I believe that this can include a "catch-all" address, but I'm not certain. We read email with Thunderbird (and K9-Mail), using IMAP and leaving mail on the server. This makes it easy to read from multiple devices; because the mail is downloaded, it is also easy to include in local backups.
It's not worth trying to run your own mail server. The main reason is trust: an ISP can get their SMTP server whitelisted. Many sites will assume that mail from an unknown private server is spam.
p.s. Your security measure with single-use email addresses: May I suggest that there are better uses for your time? The security you gain is minimal: if some database is compromised, it will include the email address as well as the (hopefully hashed) password. Your security increment by having different addresses for different accounts is essentially zero, as long as you don't re-use passwords.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by barbara hudson on Wednesday August 14 2019, @03:26PM
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 2) by stretch611 on Thursday August 15 2019, @05:57PM
Part of it is to catch the people who sell my address to the spammers.
But, also, as I mentioned, it catches when someone's system gets compromised. The "dropbox@mydomain.xxx" email address is constantly getting email forever... despite changing to a different email address for that registration years ago. But with an easy filter: Mark as SPAM ==> to-email = "dropbox@mydomain.xxx"
While I do use a different password on each site. (and keep the password manager offline -- KeePassX ) No one will ever get into my online banking with a username of "facebook@mydomain.xxx" (while I deleted that facebook account over 10 years ago, I have no doubt it is still in facebook's databses.) And remember, just because you have it password protected, they can't even reset your password if they do not know the right email address.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P