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I just did this on a website that said my Simplelogin alias isn't allowed for signup, but changed it successfully after the fact from a disposable email.

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[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I just have my own domain (and mail server). If you don’t want to host a mail server (and you shouldn’t), you can get a mail forwarding service to forward all *@domain.tld emails to your email

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This is a problem in the above contexts. Services have started blocking signups with:

"Please use a popular email provider like Gmail or..."

Had this happen on my custom domain recently. Chose to not use that service, as others should do, too.

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago

Unless it’s a necessary service I would decline to use the service.

Please name the service

[–] cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

I have so far never encountered this. Which services would this be?

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I had that happen once, but I found that it worked with duckduckgo's email aliases forwarded to my own domain's email.

[–] Cris16228@lemmy.today 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

(and you shouldn’t)

Why? I always wanted one but never been able to do it

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It's a lot of work to keep the spammers out and make sure gmail, etc. will accept your messages and not mark them as spam. A brand-new mail system with no history looks a lot like a new spam operation to them.

[–] Cris16228@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago

True. Glad I didn't continue with it, thanks!

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Google is easy. Microsoft is a PAIN

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 1 week ago

Meg, not that difficult really. There are Docker based services that do it all self-contained.

[–] trailee@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

Why have you never been able to do it? I set up a full mail system years ago on a Xen/Linux VPS with stuff like Postfix, maildrop, Courier IMAP, a custom set of MySQL tables for aliases and such, and at one point migrated my TLS from CACert to LetsEncrypt. I enjoyed some aspects of the huge pain in the ass that all of that was, and having it work nicely was great. Spinning up a new email alias was easy and free, so I created a new one for damn near every site I interacted with, which later turned into a form of lock in having to continue running my server.

The continual server maintenance was a pain in the ass, requiring me to remember in substantial detail how it all worked so that I could appropriately integrate new things I had to learn like SPF and DMARC. I’m glad to have had some detailed sysadmin experience, but I was so glad in the end to finally migrate away from all that and just pay Fastmail instead.

I still have nearly the same flexibility with Fastmail and my custom domains, but they’re the ones that need to do all the maintenance. I can’t scale across unlimited domains for the same zero marginal cost, but I can make it work for a reasonable price with a few domains and scale arbitrarily within that. I’m sure there are other hosts out there that do a similarly good job, and Fastmail hasn’t been without its own troubles, but it’s been a net win for me.

I don’t recommend running your own server. I won’t do it again. I do recommend building an army of custom aliases all at your own custom domain(s).

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 1 week ago

Oh, no, I have my own domain. I chose not to use the service that wouldn't accept it.