Comment by c7b
15 days ago
If you don't mind trusting another company with forwarding your emails, it's definitely less hassle to set up an equivalent service for yourself.
15 days ago
If you don't mind trusting another company with forwarding your emails, it's definitely less hassle to set up an equivalent service for yourself.
You can sort of do this today with iCloud. Add a custom domain and enable the catch-all forwarding, and you can receive anything@domain.tld and it’s forwarded to you.
What you’d lose is the reply-to forwarding feature.
If you mean "set up an equivalent service" under your own domain, that's both less private and more likely to be blocked; there are a lot of services which, unfortunately, only allow sign-ups from big, well-known domains.
Are there really? I don't think I've ever encountered such a service in all the years I've been using an email address under my own domain. And blocking every email address that's not from a big provider means blocking basically everyone who tries to sign up with their company email, which might not be great for business.
I've been running my own mailserver on a firstnamelastname.com domain for nearly 15 years.
As far as I can tell, nobody blocks it. Google sometimes rejects emails where the from address doesn't match the real sending address, which is fair.
I guess the first couple of years were rocky, I hadn't figured out DKIM and SPF and all the other blood rituals yet. Back then I got blocked by Steam and banks. But ever since I set up the correct security it's been fine. Been my primary email for a long long time. All my online accounts are tied to it.
Incidentally, I also have free and unlimited aliases. But I don't usually bother because I have a rule to route all messages to unknown addresses into a special folder. I can give out any random address at my domain and it will always make it back to me. So much more convenient than logging into the website to generate an alias.
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Yes, espacially exotic tld. I have a ".email" domain name, and I get 2 to 3 instances a year of either rejected forms, or sneakier, just confirmation email that never come until I use a .com address.
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https://sys.4chan.org/signin has a short list of approved email domains:
> Allowed domains are: gmail.com, hotmail.com, yahoo.com, proton.me, protonmail.com, outlook.com, live.com, icloud.com, yandex.com, tutanota.com, tutamail.com, tuta.io
I recently tried signing up for DeepSeek using my custom-domain e-mail address and the website said the domain is “not supported”.
I know a few. Heck, I’ve worked at such a place, we strictly checked MX records to make sure the email would be reachable, and catch-alls usually wouldn’t pass validation.
(I’m not saying we should have been doing that, but the company was in insurance and wanted to be extra extra sure.)
Camel camel camel wouldn’t send notifications to my hidden email. Works fine for my regular vanity domain.
in asia it is frequent that email domain is a dropdown not a type in
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Within the last month both Mapbox and Etsy blocked my attempts to signup using a Proton Mail alias. How many services do you sign up for in recent years, on average? The practice is becoming incredibly common and more than likely you're just grandfathered in.
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Nah. I have hosted my domain for 17 years on google and then fastmail. The hosting is harder than private relay, although not too hard.
But I have only had maybe 3 services ever reject my domain, and those were because the domain contains a number.
I've had some reject my e-mail address because it contains their company name. REI was one (ie it wouldn't allow rei@domain.com but would accept reicoop@domain.com)
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Within the space of 2 weeks I had both Etsy and Mapbox block signups with Proton Mail aliases. The practice is rapidly becoming more common.
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>there are a lot of services which, unfortunately, only allow sign-ups from big, well-known domains.
I have never encountered one.
Ars Technica is one you can test I believe. I think I had to register with Gmail and put in a support ticket to ask them to change it to my real email. I use Fastmail, not a selfhosted setup or anything, some services absolutely have a domain allowlist for email signup.
Popular gaming forums NeoGaf and Resetera only allow signups from paid email accounts. All free and temporary email providers are banned to discourage trolls / forum raids / alt accounts.
I have had my own domain for mail for 10 years. I have yet to ever see a service which didn't let me sign up with it. I'm willing to believe that such services exist, but I dispute the claim that there are a lot of them.
Less private, but the most common case is actually anti-harassment.
Plenty of providers, but perhaps Apple needs to be forced to open up hide-my-email-providers for others.
Only the EU is capable of doing such thing
Are you sure you don’t have this backwards? Some B2B websites only accept sign-ups from domains not associated with Gmail, Yahoo, and similar providers.
I've had my own domain for email for twenty years or so now, and I've encountered maybe one signup form that didn't accept it. What you're saying is definitely not true, and I would highly recommend using your own domain for email (preferably with Fastmail, it's fantastic).
I mean none of this is accurate, but sure.