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

Thanks for the clarification.

So thinking outside the box would either of these work.

A) Point my domain to Anonaddy instead of mailbox.

Then I link the aliases to different recipients. So myname@custom to go to my fastmail and theirname@custom to go to their gmail.

B) Leave myname@custom pointing to mailbox. Then setup a subdomain and point that to anonaddy, and use their gmail as a recipient. They'd end up with theirname@mail.custom.

[–] curious_dolphin@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I'd think A would work (pointing your custom domain to Anonaddy and linking the specific alias to their gmail as the recipient for that alias). This can be done w/ Anonaddy's Lite Plan, which is $1/month and allows up to 5 recipients.

[–] GlenRambo@jlai.lu 1 points 2 months ago

Yep. Went with A and initial tests work.

The only thing is being somewhat limited to incoming mail per month. I'll just monitor it.

Plan B I thought should technically work too but hard to organise.

And it looks like mxroute, puremail, and migadu (spelling?) offer multiple accounts and mailboxes. But they arnt so privacy focused.