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Self-hosted or personal email solutions? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by avguser@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I have a unique name, think John Doe, and I'm hoping to create a unique and "professional" looking email account like johndoe@gmail.com or john@doe.com. Since my name is common, all reasonable permutations are taken. I was considering purchasing a domain with something unique, then making personal family email accounts for john@mydoe.com jane@mydoe.com etc.

Consider that I'm starting from scratch (I am). Is there a preferred domain registrar, are GoDaddy or NameCheap good enough? Are there prebuilt services I can just point my domain to or do I need to spin up a VPS and install my own services? Are there concerns tying my accounts to a service that might go under or are some "too big to fail"?

I can expand what hangs off the domain later, but for now I just need a way to make my own email addresses and use them with the relative ease of Gmail or others. Thanks in advance!!

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[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have a bunch of users (friends and family) on a bunch of different domains. It's honestly not so bad but yeah, you need a decent dedicated service.

Migrations aren't simple but aren't that complicated either (just did one last year).

I mainly need to copy their email over but it's also a good moment to check they're using decent passwords and to have them freshen it.

I also need to update their webmail and IMAP/SMTP URLs in their bookmark/email apps but I've been playing with DNS CNAMEs for this purpose and it's mostly working ok (aliasing one of my domains to the provider's so I only have to update the DNS which I do anyway for a mail migration).

[–] SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My mistake was using Google but when it was just the ability to have a personal domain as your google account. But they kept expanding and morphing that into what is now Google Workspace. Migrating people off of that requires them to abandon their Google accounts and start over. If it was just email it would be a much simpler prospect to change backends.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Can you not transfer away a domain from Google as you would from any other registrar? And then set the MX records to point at another mail service?

[–] SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org 2 points 10 months ago

Certainly. But, what I'm trying to say is it's not just email. My users are using my domain as their Google account. All Google services, oAuth, etc..., not just email. To do it right I need to get them to migrate their google services to a gmail.com account.