I’d like to invite you to Port87. Also, if you use your own domain name, you can avoid vendor lock in, then if your email provider starts to enshittify, you can migrate to a new one without changing any of your addresses.
Would using your own domain name suffer from the reputation issue that would mean that you can’t really send very much of anything, since it would be eaten by the spam filtering?
No, reputation is mainly only tied to the IP address of the sending server. As long as a message is signed correctly and has proper SPF and DKIM entries in DNS, it shouldn’t affect spam detection.
I can’t say it won’t, because that’s really up to the receiving SMTP server, but industry practice is generally that the domain name is a very low value signal, compared to sending IP.
Brand new domains, as long as they’re being sent from an IP address with a good reputation, should have no issues.
damn, I should really leave Gmail, but I’ve used it for everything for almost 20 years 😫
I’d like to invite you to Port87. Also, if you use your own domain name, you can avoid vendor lock in, then if your email provider starts to enshittify, you can migrate to a new one without changing any of your addresses.
Thanks, I’ll look into it!
From a quick glance I wanted to flag up that this form is very hard to read with black on dark grey:
Oh, that does not look right. Thank you for pointing that out. Can you tell me what browser you’re using? And if you have light mode or dark mode?
Edit: Never mind, it looks like it always does that in light mode. I’m fixing that now. Thank you!
thanks :) yes it was in light mode
Would using your own domain name suffer from the reputation issue that would mean that you can’t really send very much of anything, since it would be eaten by the spam filtering?
No, reputation is mainly only tied to the IP address of the sending server. As long as a message is signed correctly and has proper SPF and DKIM entries in DNS, it shouldn’t affect spam detection.
I can’t say it won’t, because that’s really up to the receiving SMTP server, but industry practice is generally that the domain name is a very low value signal, compared to sending IP.
Brand new domains, as long as they’re being sent from an IP address with a good reputation, should have no issues.
its problematic