Hello everyone,

So I’ve been thinking about improving my current email setup, so that my partner can also have her own email (she currently uses Gmail, and is open to switching, but I have to make it easy)

I first considered the usual email providers (Mailbox.org, Posteo), but then I was thinking that it could be nice to use my own domain to have more control and make the thing future-proof.

So here’s my suggested setup

The main pros of this setup is

  • staying in control of the coolmail.eu domain: if migadu goes down, I can stil switch this solution to a similar service like mxroute
  • being able to switch from addy.io to another “junk alias” provider if needed
  • not exposing the coolmail.eu addresses to most of the data leaks sources
  • being able to use migadu as the one centralized place to manage our emails

Now that I think about it, I have one question for Migadu users: in my scenario, I assume I would only be using one Migadu account. In that case, would I be able to see all the emails sent/received by all the addresses in that domain (including my partner)? I guess in that case she should still keep another email address on the side for her personal emails… (I don’t think it’s realistic to expect her to use E2EE)

Am I missing something else?

  • ken@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 day ago

    No experience with Migadu but yeah, I think 1 account = 1 login is the intended meaning in their FAQ.

    At $19/year couldn’t just gifting a separate micro sub to your SO might be a option if you adminning her email feels weird to either of you?

    Am I missing something else?

    You don’t mention how you’ll be accessing your emails so maybe this is something you already solved for: Regularly syncing down all mail locally means you won’t have to rely on the mail provider as a single-point-of-failure for keeping your emails safe, secure, private and available. This could consist of anything from a simple offlineimap cronjob to a full-blown “offline” separate mail server.

    • Blaze@piefed.zipOPEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Thank you for your feedback!

      Yes, I guess I’ll reach out to Migadu (even use the free trial) to see how that point can be solved.

      And yeah, good point for the offlineimap cronjob, I’ll take note of that.

      • ken@discuss.tchncs.de
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        1 day ago

        good point for the offlineimap cronjob, I’ll take note of that.

        I might as well go as far as suggesting to start there with your current mail provider if the local/offline-first flow is something that could work for you (and assuming it’s not something you already do, in which case carry on). Once you’ve adapted to a local-first mail reading flow with any client that’s separate from the “app” or webmail tethered to your mail service, then rest of migrations should be smoother and hopefully feel less daunting. Doesn’t mean you have to keep doing it that way only forever but establishing the infra and habit once for a while can help with both resilience and confidence in everything that follows.

        If you’re roaming between devices and places enough that local-first feels untenable then the “syncbox” could be a little SBC or whatever; it could be the machine you also use read and write mail from but doesn’t have to be.

        NP and good luck!