Re:Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email
by tonyoconnell on Sunday January 26, 2025 @11:49PM
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Do you want free email for multiple addresses on multiple domains with all the features of a Gmail? Just setup Cloudflare to manage your email, create rules to forward to regular Gmail accounts, which you can configure to send email from your domains. 100% free.
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Re:Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email
by kanodiaashu on Monday January 27, 2025 @12:11AM
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Could you say more? Is there a tutorial I could follow?
Re:Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email
by notpushkin on Monday January 27, 2025 @12:08AM
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I do want all the features of a Gmail, I just don’t want Google going through it.
iirc with this setup, Google just changes the "reply-to" and someone can still figure out your actual Gmail address.
Re:Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email
by notpushkin on Monday January 27, 2025 @12:09AM
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I think you can still add an SMTP server in Gmail, and it will use that (with a proper From header, DKIM and all).
In a Cloudflare+GMail setup, what SMTP server would I use for sending?
Re:Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email
by notpushkin on Monday January 27, 2025 @01:20AM
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Any third-party one! There’s a bunch of options.
The usual ones like SendGrid or Mailgun are probably not great for personal email, but it could probably work. Personally, I’ve used Duocircle for a similar setup and it worked pretty well: https://www.duocircle.com/email/outbound-smtp
Re:Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email
by noman-land on Monday January 27, 2025 @12:48AM
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You can't send outgoing mail to arbitrary email addresses. You can only reply, synchronously, to incoming emails.
just forwarding is great if you can afford losing mail. Gmail will drop your messages occasionally.
You can use gmail's own relay for sending but it won't DKIM sign which is a must even for Gmail itself.
for a more reliable solution use forwarding AND POP3 fetching with some provoder OR use https://gmailify.com which offers own relays too for ~$7 a year.