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Using a custom domain with two seprate email accounts. (jlai.lu)

submitted 2 months ago by GlenRambo@jlai.lu to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I purchased a custom domain to use with mailbox.org.

The MX records are setup and basic tests are working. I'm getting myname@customdomain.com showing up in my mailbox.org account.

But I got confused with setting up a family member with theirname@customdomain.com

Do they need to pay for a plan too?

There not worried about the privacy they just want the custom email address. Is there anyway to do this for free or cheaper, without self hosting email?

Side question. I've been paying for anonaddy to hide my normal @outlook account. Are there any benefits in keeping anonaddy to send emails to my custom domain. Instead of just using a catchall, or pre-configuring some aliases?

The only benifits I see are

Anonaddy can make accounts on the fly
On The Fly accounts might be easier to disable than things sent to a catchall
Anonaddy dosnt reveal your domain (maybe this is the big draw card?)

Thanks.

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[–] trailee@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don’t know about mailbox.org, but with Fastmail I use a combination of explicit aliases and a catchall alias. The catchall and some individuals direct to me, but other individuals go to me and my spouse@gmail, while others go only to spouse@gmail. The per-user fee is about how many distinct mailboxes with different passwords exist in the service, so I’m only paying for one for me, and the aliases are configurable to resend incoming mail externally.

[–] GlenRambo@jlai.lu 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is this via a rule, as in the email hits the inbox then gets sent on.

Or is it a setting when you configure the alias.

Where the email goes to fastmail then gets sent onto gmail, are you limited to replying from the gmail?

[–] trailee@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Each alias has a configured delivery destination. Aliases that only point externally never reach the main account inbox.

You are limited to replying from the gmail unless you jump through more advanced hoops. Those include telling gmail in its settings that it can “Send mail as” something else, and also giving gmail authorization to send mail for your domain by adding them into your SPF and DKIM records. Those are more complicated than I want to describe here, and it will be complicated to merge both mailbox.org and gmail into them, so if you don’t already know about them, let’s just say yes, you can only reply as the gmail user.