All I wanted was a custom domain email
6 hours ago
- The author owns the domain jacobg.co for over 2 years and wanted a custom email address without high costs.
- Requirements included bring-your-own domain, cheap pricing, unlimited addresses, verified sending/receiving, and Apple Mail integration.
- Cloudflare Email Routing only handled receiving; sending required a separate solution and had slow forwarding.
- Mailflare (open-source) used Cloudflare for receiving and Resend for sending, but sending reliability was problematic.
- Purelymail offered cheap $10/year SMTP/IMAP with unlimited addresses and privacy, but the author found another option before committing.
- Google Workspace was too expensive and overkill for a personal domain.
- Foundermail integrated with Cloudflare, provided SMTP/IMAP, multiple addresses, verified sending, and was affordable; setup was easy.
- Foundermail had a limitation requiring a special request to send to new addresses, but it was resolved and hasn't been an issue.
- The author concluded that custom email is complicated, especially sending reliably due to spam filters and authentication.
- Currently, [email protected] runs on Foundermail, and the author plans to stick with it.