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Custom domain email sometimes marked as invalid? (midwest.social)

submitted 2 months ago by XenoWarden@midwest.social to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I’ve recently been working on de-Googling and part of that has been setting up an email with my custom domain. This mostly works great, but one issue I’ve noticed is email validation on some websites detect this email address as invalid. For instance, if I have the domain [name].rocks with the email [name]@[name].rocks (with [name] being a placeholder for my name) my email cannot be used to register with the Ventra app (for getting mobile train tickets) I believe because any site that has an extension with more than four characters is detected as invalid.

I understand this is a validation issue on the end of the app dev / website, but I was wondering if people had suggestions for workarounds when they encounter this? Setting up other custom emails with forwarding? Thanks!

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[–] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Unfortunately, the latter means having to maintain multiple email accounts, or forwarding services like Addy.io, SimpleLogin, Firefox Relay, or DuckDuckGo Email.

It doesn't, you can hook multiple domains up to deliver mail to the same mail server. I have three domains pointing to a single server myself.

(edit: added full quote)

[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The rest of the sentence you truncated points out forwarding services. Yes, others exist beyond the four I mentioned, of course.

Edit to clarify: Your "it doesn't" argument is that you can use forwarding from other domains that you own. Indeed you can, but that's not a counterargument, because those are forwarding services. They do exactly what I described: the same thing as the example forwarding services in my original comment. You still have to maintain the them, as well as maintain the extra domains.

[–] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

Okay, I edited it to quote the full sentence. You also don’t need those either, though.