Changing E-Mail (Watch This Space)

[stevemb]

Our service from Speakeasy has been getting increasingly flaky, with more outages in the last couple months than in the previous few years. The last straw was that messages from addresses that are in the spam filter whitelist have been repeatedly dropping into the spam bucket anyway (and attempts to re-enter them into the whitelist don't work); the

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[mneme]

Giving out the "real addy" isn't terrible, and backup addies are useful, of course.

FWIW, my strat is to maintain a personal domain. I do pay for hosting and get imap off there. But for a lot less, I could park it somewhere where it forwarded all my email to...well, anywhere.

The annoying thing about this approach is that it costs money (at least enough to retain a domain name; unless you're going to hand a friend who is already doing hosting your addy, also something for hosting; pobox does email-only hosting for $20/year for up to 3 addresses).

The nice thing about it is that it's totally under your control regardless of disruption of the underlying service (unless you manage to fail to renew your domain, anyway, but that's what long-term domain pricing is for aside from the cheap rates). If google goes all darkside, your @gmail.com address might become a liability -- but if you're hosting your domain on pobox, or a friend, or dreamhost.com, and the underlying service starts to suffer, you can just yank your domain and move it somewhere else without having to issue a COA to all your friends.

[stevemb]

Thanks. I don't know if I'll bother with setting up a domain, but I have thought about segregating e-mail addresses (providing different levels of privacy, spam protection versus certainty of any given message getting through, etc), including one for household services (directly accessible to both me and starmalachite).