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
- getting a domain name that could look like a niche email provider (e.g. coolmail.eu)
- getting a https://www.migadu.com/pricing/ micro plan (I don’t need more than 200 in / 20 out), and create a bunch of email aliases such as me@coolmail.eu, her@coolmail.eu, us@coolmail.eu, powerbills@coolmail.eu, etc
- getting a Lite https://addy.io/#pricing plan , and set up addy.io aliases for when we don’t want to share our coolmail.eu emails (e.g. restaurant bookings, online store accounts, Fediverse accounts, etc.)
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?
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!
Indeed, I’ll start looking at that!
Just FYI, seems like Migadu still allows multiple mailboxes with different creds under the same account: https://www.migadu.com/guides/identities/