I'm addicted to the Gmail webmail, does anyone know a webmail that can be similar?
Maybe roundcube with a mess of hundreds of plugins?
Crossbox is nice but the price is unaffordable (pricing designed for a hosting with thousands of users)
I'm still being lazy about actually making the jump myself but I'd probably go with proton. They're not perfect and already showing signs they might enshittify in the future but for now it's still miles ahead of giving all the data to the Americans. In September when I'm back from holidays...
My main issue with proton is the forced encryption and so the lack of IMAP. The mails I receive are not sensitive, and I much prefer to use my own client rather than being forced to use theirs
I've used round cube about 7 years ago, but it was a very poor experience in comparison with gmail back then. Gmail hasn't really changed anything since, except that it got less reliable, I can only hope that there now are better open source web mail clients; there can't be worse
Last time I looked at it the service I wanted to use to register a domain asked for my full legal name and address for the process. This would have then shown up in some publicly available repository of registered domains, at least that's how I understood it.
It this something all registrars have to do or did I get this wrong?
Many places you can get WHOIS privacy for free, like Hover.
.eu domains hide it by default, like here: https://www.whois.com/whois/hakkerman.eu
It used to be the default and you could pay for privacy. I think it's free these days.
FYI, Mozilla do free SSL certificates (for HTTPS) these days which used to be quite expensive.
Ok, you confuse me a bit by throwing SSL into this comment but your first part got me to look at a registrar mentioned in other comments and I see what you mean.
Info found here https://kb.porkbun.com/article/97-how-to-configure-whois-privacy-service-porkbun
Was a pain to automate for my VPS, but alas better than nothing
Sadly posteo doesn't do custom domains, otherwise they would be a near-perfect provider...
I got [surname].de over twenty years ago and I am so happy about that. Google can gargle my balls, I run postfix, rspamd, dovecot and roundcube.
I did too. I feel smug when I'm asked for my email.
I too have had noone ever say anything about the fact I have a surname domain when I am telling them my email.
I have firstname@lastname.countrycode and occasionally I get people that it breaks their brain that it's not @gmail or something and they insist its wrong or won't work.
Funny but also mildy annoying at times.
It's even worse when some idiot dev decides what an email should look like and doesn't properly implement RFC822 (or whichever one specifies all the random bits of a valid email address).
The current recommendation is to check for an @ symbol. It's pretty much the only concrete rule.
If an email address has to exist, the only way is to send it an email and have the user click a link.
https://beesbuzz.biz/code/439-Falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-email
I was too late for that, unfortunately and got . which also some people don't comprehend.
Although it's the capitol and there are sites from public services which use that TLD as well.
What genuinely pisses me off: Prior to that I got .name, and there are sites, which refuse to accept it as a valid TLD when I try to register with them.
Edit: I got <lastname[with umlauts]>., tho as this was available, but those don't work that well. Or didn't, when I last checked.
I have a complicated surname, so when people ask for my email I just show them my ID and say "firstname@lastname.de" and they can type it in, reading it off the card.
It's made my life so easy!
I also kept all of my spam mails of the last twenty years and trained rspamd with it. It's got a 99.9% success rate. I'd even argue it works better than some corporate mail providers (what also helps is that I provide the mail service for friends & family as well and we are all collectively training the database).
It was a pain to setup initially, but I don't want to miss it.
Leaving this link here might get me a lot of downvotes, but I for one am not going to set up my own domain for personal mail and am happy using Proton. They offer a tool for gmail users: https://proton.me/blog/proton-mail-connect-gmail
You can use a domain with proton mail. And when proton turns into garbage someday, you register your domain with a different mail provider. That way you get to keep your mail address.
The benefit is that you can keep the same email if/when a provider enshittifies, including proton.
Custom domains are a lot like open sourcing in software; helps keep the SaaS honest. If most customers use a custom domain, the service provider would act based on the knowledge that they could lose most customers easily.
I've been thinking about registrating my own domain ( again) but I can't settle or lack imagination for an easy recognisable name format for us. Anyone ideas?
Also there's a connection to selfhosted here, but I need to delve a bit deeper maybe.
Sorry, buttplug.io is already taken so I don’t have any more ideas.
buttplug42069.xxx however is wide open
I made mine firstname@lastname.me but I also have it set up with proton Mail as a catchall email address so I can give out literallyanything@lastname.me and it all goes to the same inbox with the ability to filter and send some addresses strait to trash.
I used to do that, but it caught far too much spam sent to random usernames on every domain. Now I have a fixed prefix and do prefix+literallyanything@lastname.me, which gives the same benefits with less spam.
It is like a tattoo: Do not think too much about the first or third tattoo/domain. the tenth will give you an feeling and the 15th you feel completed. Just start with one and as soon as you have control over your first digital cert endpoint, you can forward easy from it to any other domain in you control and depricating out unwanted domains over years without problems. It is a road not the destination to choosen your first domain. Hit the Road Riddick and don't you come back no more.
Can confirm, I have 4 domains. Help
My registrar told me that I could have a 5% permanent discount if I registered, transferred or renewed 80 domains.
I now have so many unused domains for that ideas that I will never have the time to implement
Okay? Or just setup forwarding
This is a neat trick but also very unprivate as your mail will be unique and a huge barrier (monetary)
This is a neat trick but also very unprivate as your mail will be unique and a huge barrier (monetary)
What is huge? The costs for a domain are next to nothing.
Depends on the domain but ok true it doesnt require much
Thanks!
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