While the email experts are in this thread, can I get a guide on how to setup a simple email address @ my own domain?
If you google, most of the top hits are for free mail forwarding using your domain registrar. I tried this and it was pretty terrible with a ton of caveats. For example using namecheap you can only receive but not send from that domain, can't receive attachments, and can't even send an email to yourself for testing purposes.
I think the easiest way is to pay GSuite $6/month?
Don’t have experience with gSuite, but I use fastmail and very happy with them. The idea is you go to your registrar or DNS provider and change MX records to the Fastmail servers (they provide the host names and comprehensive setup help in their documentation).
There’s many options, but it boils down to two approaches:
- pay someone to send and receive your emails (eg. update your MX records to point to gsuite, fast mail etc)
- host your own mail server (something like http://mailu.io/ will work), basically you’re going to need a program that listens for and stores incoming emails, and a program that sends them, plus all the glue inbetween (IMAP, pop3, webmail, storage etc etc)
If you’re going for simplicity, then the first option would be the easiest. I think Zoho offers this for free for one address, and it works just fine.
I use mailgun free-tire and am very happy. Basically you have to set up your MX record and that's it. I use gmail's "send as" feature to send from my domain, and setup a catch-all forwarding rule of "*@mydomain.com -> mygmail@gmail.com" because I like gmail's UI. I even have a "spam@mydomain.com -> myspammailbox@gmail.com" for shady websites.
3. set domain nameservers at registrar to point to fastmail
4. setup domain on fastmail, setup email on fastmail, setup aliases (you need to pay for extra subscriptions to have separate mail users; i think same applies with gsuite).
If you google, most of the top hits are for free mail forwarding using your domain registrar. I tried this and it was pretty terrible with a ton of caveats. For example using namecheap you can only receive but not send from that domain, can't receive attachments, and can't even send an email to yourself for testing purposes.
I think the easiest way is to pay GSuite $6/month?