Ask HN: What email service should I use instead of Gmail?

Re:Ask HN: What email service should I use instead of Gmail? by switch007 on Thursday December 08, 2022 @03:39AM (#33905727)

Just a warning that owning your domain means also owning the security of the domain.

If you lose access to eg gmail or they ban you, nobody you care about will access your email.

If your domain gets hijacked or you fail to renew, now a bad actor could receive all your email forever.

(I use my own domain for email)

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Re:Ask HN: What email service should I use instead of Gmail? by 10729287 on Thursday December 08, 2022 @04:35AM (#33906077)

Can confirm about the security issues. After having a domain not secured enough being hijacked by wordpress exploit and then flooded by porn and blacklisted by Google and Facebook - happilly I didn't have email on it - I definitely got rid of the idea of having my @owndomain mail adress.

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Re:Ask HN: What email service should I use instead of Gmail? by w-hn on Friday December 09, 2022 @04:08AM (#33919257)

How do you socure it better? I have mine on Porkbun.

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Re:Ask HN: What email service should I use instead of Gmail? by 10729287 on Saturday December 10, 2022 @12:29PM (#33934508)

Fastmail is my main provider for email. Sorry for misunderstanding. I never ran my own email server, but had a personal website on this domain (RIP).

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Re:Ask HN: What email service should I use instead of Gmail? by katla on Thursday December 08, 2022 @01:00PM (#33910939)

Thank you for the info! :)

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