Grow Your Own Services 🌱Mar 23, 2024

The easiest way to have control of your email is probably to buy a domain name (such as example.com) and then use this on an account from an independent email provider.

If you're ever unhappy with a provider, you can switch to a different one without changing your email address because the domain still belongs to you.

There are lots of independent email providers, all of them let you use your own domain. For example @Tutanota, @fastmail and @protonmail are very popular.

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Show threadSam MinterMar 23, 2024
@homegrown @Tutanota @fastmail @protonmail Any thoughts specifically on spam filtering on the various hosted mail providers? I currently have my domain’s email at the same place I use for website hosting, but spam filtering seemed almost random, with a huge amount of mail I actually wanted going to spam, and also a huge amount of spam making it to my inbox. I can handle occasional spam in my inbox, but good mail going to spam almost non-stop is just not OK. Looking for a better solution.
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@abulsme

I don't know, it would probably need a proper comparison to be done by some tech journalists?

I have used a few indie providers and they've all been okay about spam, but obviously that's just for my account. I don't know how well it works for other people.

Mar 23, 2024 at 11:05pmWeb
Show threadSam MinterMar 23, 2024
@homegrown Yeah, I’d love to see that analysis. Right now that would be the only thing that would make a move worth the pain of actually migrating the accounts for my whole family to a new provider. I actually just turned off spam filtering entirely because I was constantly losing good mail (which even got deleted if I didn’t remove it from spam in a timely fashion), but now of course I’m being deluged with spam in my inbox.
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@abulsme

For what it's worth (and obviously this doesn't solve potential problems), there's usually some kind of free trial period available, and the monthly payments can usually be cancelled at any time if you want to change providers.

Show threadSam MinterMar 23, 2024
@homegrown Yeah. But remembering the last time I changed my mail from one service to another, I don’t want to do it more than once if I can avoid it. There are logistics of moving mail around to make sure nothing from the old provider is lost, and I have a whole bunch of family members I have to essentially be tech support to go to each and every one of their devices to change the mail settings. Major pain. So I only want to bother if I know it will be good.