maybe sending dms across the fediverse
maybe sending dms across the fediverse
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I need an alternative to gmail for creating new email accounts. Any ideas?
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Get a cheap hosting plan. You'll get a domain, several mailboxes and you can mess around with services like Nextcloud
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Unfortunately, that doesn't work anymore. Even assuming you have the technical skill to avoid making your server into a spam relay the moment it's turned on. Which itself isn't easy, even for seasoned IT people.
The major providers are Google, Outlook, and Yahoo. Even if you don't use one of those, you're going to be sending to people who do. To combat spam, they check your domain and see if it has a track record of not being a spammer. A brand new domain on a brand new host has no way of establishing that track record, and the email will bounce.
You can get a track record by hosting your domain under an existing service. There's no way to bootstrap it on your own anymore.
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Just get a domain from a normal provider. It will work.
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No, it will not. If it works at first, it won't for long.
My online community SDF was founded in 1987, four years before Tim Berners Lee invented the web. They are so old that their FAQ still refers to email as "Arpanet email". Guess what? Emails from SDF don't reach Big Tech servers. I'm positive that the beards of their admins are grayer than mine and they will have tried to tweak every nook and cranny available.
What are we left with?
You cannot set up a home email server.
You cannot set it up on a VPS.
You cannot set it up on your own datacenter.
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You can totally go to Hetzner, GoDaddy or other hosting providers, get a domain and send mails to Gmail.
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No, you can't. Read the blog for why you can't.
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you seem to have me confused with the IT linux wizard type lemmy. I didn't even understand half of that sentence
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OutLook? I'm still rocking my Hotmail address LOL
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Tuta (formerly Tutanota) has worked well for me.
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