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I own a custom domain for my main email provider so if I switch to a new one I won't have to change all my address for contacting people. I am considering buy a separate domain for just my email forwarding service.

What do people on here do?

Current Setup:

domain1.com - for main email

alias.domain1.com - for email forwarding with Addy.io

New Option:

domain1.com - for main email

domain2.com - for email forwarding with Addy.io

Cross posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/34446665

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[–] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 2 points 1 week ago

New Option:

domain1.com - for main email

domain2.com - for email forwarding with Addy.io

This is what I do (but simplelogin). I have a wildcard address (*.email@domain2.com) that let's me setup individual accounts for each service (e.g., lemmy.email@domain2.com)

myname@domain1.com is only shared with real humans or critical services that I don't want to risk dealing with the hassle if simplelogin goes belly up (I know I can move the DNS records and recreate the accounts, but at this point I have dozens of email addresses and am prone to forgetting things).

[–] notabot@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

I set up a mail server which rejects mail to addresses at my spam domain that don't match a regexp, and sends the ones that do to an inbox. That way I can sign up to each service with a different address.

[–] brian@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

I have a domain2 for all mailing list and non-critical services, which I’d be able to take elsewhere if I ever change provider (I’m with Tuta so I’m hoping not to have to do that anytime soon).

I own domain1 for all friends, family and critical services (like banking etc). So far, it works well.