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Note they are paying 6 euro/month per VPS with 40 GB disk, which probably leaves 20-30 GB for messages themselves.

A commercial email provider like Fastmail charges $5/month (less if paying annually) for mailbox with 30 GB limit, with free unlimited email aliases and free custom domains. If you are happy with a single mail storage location, this is much easier and cheaper too.

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Like all these projects, making it hard for yourself is part of the plan. Any sensible person would use GMail and call it a day, or another provider, but certainly not something like that.

But using GMail doesn't give you any experience in system administration, is not satisfying, and no one will hire you because you know how to create a GMail account.

Also, if you pay for a server, you have a server, you don't have to limit yourself to email. You can host a few web pages, make a personal VPN, maybe even a small Minecraft server, or whatever fun project you can think of.

Fastmail has another plus (which no other provider has) its mail client lets you send mail from your random unique email addrso on your domain on the fly.

So while catch-all solves the problem of receiving emails on random email addresses on your domain it gets tricky when you have send emails from those addresses. (Apple mail client allows you to do this in a convoluted way - you have to add the email in advance and if you forgot it’ll be sent from another email)

Or 365 Personal with 1TB Onedrive, 50GB mailbox. If you want to add a custom domain you need to buy one at GoDaddy (yuck!)

I know at least one person who doesn't use GoDaddy with their 365 family account but still has the custom domain working.

The values to configure in DNS are available as parameters in the link on the M365 side.

YMMV, of course, but DNS is DNS.

Will they support it? Unlikely. Will it work forever? No way to be sure, but isn't everything temporary anyway?

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