I have a private @gmail and a business @company.com (also via gmail), which I heavily rely on. Due to a recent data-leak somewhere, I’m now receiving unstoppable spam on my @gmail, and decided to set up a new account on proton and ditch @gmsil in favor of @example.com. I came across SimpleLogin, and thought that I could use that instead of protons custom domain feature for both @company.com and @example.com
Since I also host some stuff myself, I went through the self-hosting process of SimpleLogin, which was a pita dealing with postfix. But now, everything is running fine and I can send/receive @exampke.com emails, which I tested with @gmail and @company.com (gmail).
Even though it was a nice learning experience, I’m starting to wonder whether my setup is future proof and reliable, especially when it comes to spam. I really don’t want my @company.com mails to land in customers spam folders.
So my question is, how reliable is a self hosted email-forwarding solution, and how does it compare with a self-hosted mail service. Like, are these two equal in terms when it comes to precautions etc?
I would have a failsafe, like use a major email provider for emails that you need to go through for like work order government stuff.
Hosting your own email is a great learning experience and is fun to do; but your emails will get marked as spam, you’ll have to constantly perform maintenance, and have major reliability issues.
Most of the issues youll have are fine for personal use, but is dicey if you plan to migrate 100%
Edit: receiving email is less of an issue of sending. The forwarder should be reliable, however, its the sending from the forwarding address that would possibly be an issue.