I might recommend saying "Contact us" or "Coming soon" – I also thought this was a glitch or that you were attempting to serve personalized pricing and it wasn't working.
"Contact us" to me almost always means "you're going to have to talk to a salesperson who's trying to maximize their commission." That doesn't sound like someone who's "buying domains for fun" would really want to do. It also adds a significant amount of friction to your customer acquisition process.
Can someone comment on the security aspect of forwarding mail? Does it add another layer of complexity/attack surface or is it negligible vis a vi the added privacy.
Yes there is a bit of added complexity. By SMTP's nature, the forwarding mail server will need to receive your email, before they can forward it to you. For that reason if you use a service for forwarding, you'll need to make sure you trust the company running this service, or only use this service for low-damage forwarding.
I've been using forwardemail.net for years. When I started the project was a few scripts on github and it's grown into a fully-fledged (excellent) product. If you're in the market for this I highly recommend you check them out. You can get pretty far with the free plan, and the paid is priced just right ($3/month right now) so that's what I do to support them.
I have also used ImprovMX and had good success there, although I ended up leaving because the free plan was too limiting and the paid plan was too much ($10/month last I checked).
Both services have great UX. It's hard to go wrong. I'll probably try out Mailway as well just for comparison.
Note I'm not affiliated in any way with forwardemail or ImprovMX, just a happy user.
Are there any solutions out there (FOSS highly preferred) that convert email into a REST/JSON API? What I really want is a traditional email account but headless (a frontend UI that works would be great, but there are plenty of those around already). I have a bunch of other projects I'm working on at the moment so I haven't built that myself, but I've gotten close a number of times. I would pay $3/month for a small account like that, going up to $10/month for lots of storage (but I won't need much personally).
I've heard that Gmail actually has a pretty good API, but I haven't looked into it. Has anyone tried using gmail from the API?
That pricing model don't work for me.
If I am buying a domain just for fun, I won't want to contact them for quotation -- I want something one or two clicks away.
Ok, I see. Kinda clever, but in my opinion it leaves a bad first impression. I thought it was a bug and so my first thought was, "if they can't even get that right...".
I would recommend maybe changing that, but I understand if you want to keep it.
Migadu only charges for emails sent, so is quite economical for many scenarios. Also mailinabox makes it very easy to set up a quick mail server for not super important domains.
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[ 1.1 ms ] story [ 66.4 ms ] threadI haven't tried it myself but the maintainer is prominent in open source so I'd be pretty optimistic.
Totally fine if you don't know, but I may hold off investing time into something else if you expect it to be soon-ish.
From a security perspective, the emails will be readable from such a service.
I have also used ImprovMX and had good success there, although I ended up leaving because the free plan was too limiting and the paid plan was too much ($10/month last I checked).
Both services have great UX. It's hard to go wrong. I'll probably try out Mailway as well just for comparison.
Note I'm not affiliated in any way with forwardemail or ImprovMX, just a happy user.
I've heard that Gmail actually has a pretty good API, but I haven't looked into it. Has anyone tried using gmail from the API?
mailway will provide webhooks when an email is received, no plans to actually send emails yet but mailgun has a good API.
I would recommend maybe changing that, but I understand if you want to keep it.