Ask HN: How do you manage email on a custom domain?

Some here use Fastmail [1] with their domains. Others run their own self hosted mail servers. Fastmail is probably less expensive and less hassle unless one has a bit of knowledge of setting up mail servers. I don't know gsuite pricing or if this is a better option for your use-case.

[1] - https://www.fastmail.com/pricing/

I use AWS Simple Email Service for sending and receiving, but my use of email is largely automated (not reading it with my own eyes) so a bit of a niche. I wrote about the harder bit (receiving)[1].

[1] https://github.com/mlhpdx/email-delivery

Postfix, Dovecot and DNS with cheap Debian/Ubuntu LTS is all I needed to maintain all my email for about 10 years.

I also made a habit of creating an email alias per web service to keep credential leaks under control.

Edit: you messages should pass through any big email service if you implement DKIM, DMARC, etc. and make sure you are not an open relay.

Similar to Fastmail, Zoho mail also allows you to link many domains and it is cheap (I think it's $1/user/month). The interface works and you can easily switch the sender domain.

If you are an Apple user already, you can point custom domains to iCloud Mail. I've had some trouble with their spam filter overblocking in some cases, but since I was already paying for iCloud storage it made sense for me.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212514

To manage email on a custom domain, follow these steps:

Choose an email hosting provider like Google Workspace or Microsoft 365. Configure DNS records with your domain registrar to point to the email hosting servers. Set up email accounts with your custom domain and access them through webmail or email clients. Customize settings, prioritize security, and stay updated for smooth email management.

I was facing the same issue. Did you figure sth out?

I use fastmail.

Incoming emails to my domains are routed using Cloudflare.

I use Mailjet’s free tier for sending emails via Gmail.

ProtonMail. It's not as polished as Gmail at this point but it works fairly well.

My domain registrar (gandi) provides email hosting with roundcube for free. I always used it via imap however.

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I highly recommend Fastmail [0] for this purpose. I have been with them for 5 years, and they're rock solid. I have ~10 domains on it, they support wildcards (send/recv at anything@you.com), the composer has sane defaults for multiple domains (e.g. replies are sent from the address it was mailed to) that can be overridden when you need, and you can easily create masked emails using your own domain.

$50/yr for all that is a steal. They don't charge you per-domain or have any funky tiered pricing for the stuff that matters.

Disclaimer: I am not related to them, just a happy customer :-)

[0] https://www.fastmail.com/

I also use FastmIl, have been for over ten years now and zero issues. Recently I’ve been creating a unique email names e.g. apple@mydomain.com to see where spam comes from or if one of the services I sign up with gets breached my main personal email stays clear and I can just kill the unique name. That’s free on Fastmail.

Try https://gmailify.com so you can add domains to your Gmail account.

I found Zoho mail to work well for me.

I am currently using this setup:

- Sending through *Protonmail*, using Protonmail DKIM

- Receiving via *Cloudflare Email*, using workers to forward to multiple addresses:

    export default {
     async email(message, env, ctx) {
         await Promise.all([
           message.forward("me@email.com"),
           message.forward("me2@email.com"),
         ]);
     }
    }

Cloudflare is needed because of how ProtonMail works, it doesn't allow forwarding the emails (because it would break their encryption protocol).

Also wrote this short article on using/securing your own domain name for emails: https://www.uxwizz.com/blog/stop-others-use-your-domain-emai...