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Cloudflare's doing free mail forwarding now. It's in beta but they're onboarding people pretty fast.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-email-routing/

outgoing is going to be a bit more tricky. That's an exercise for the reader.

edit: I have also failed to seen ImprovMX mentioned here, but they have a compelling offering for bulk domain owners. Run by a community member (cx42net: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22223783)

I know there are some other niche mail services that are out and do the things you can find through other mentioned companies like fastmail, o365, migadu, mxroute, et cetera. One of these days I should put some sort of mail guide together to collect and untangle this ecosystem.

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Could people who do this talk a bit more about how the outgoing side works out? Is there a way to do this where I don't have to jump through hoops just to hit reply to a message & have it come from my custom domain?

Ideally, what I'm looking for:

* wildcard routing

* keep existing archive of mail

* easy to use (replies make sense on mobile and web interface)

* not have to replace google identity (for YouTube prefs + 3rd party sign-ins)

There was this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30104783 about how a gsuite account could be converted to a free one, which sounds like it could work with this, but I'm still unsure about how sending mail would work out.

The next best alternative I see is fastmail, but that saves me just $12/year + I have to do a lengthy export + I'm not sure how my google accounts will work out.

In the past, I utilized a standard Gmail account (no G Suite/Workspace) and had mail forwarding set up with a domain I had in Google domains. It supports using a wildcard (any email@domain.com). In terms of sending email as the alias, this is also easily doable:

https://support.google.com/domains/answer/9437157?hl=en

Last time I looked, your actual Gmail address was still included in such outgoing emails, the From address may be the alias but the Gmail address was also present in the headers.

I do this with ImprovMx. You set up the inbound to forward to some other address. For outbound you can either pay them or set up GMail to do outbound aliasing. It works fine for me, but there is some lag on inbound emails.

I looked into Cloudflare's email forwarding back in December and it looked like a lot of folks were still on the waitlist.

Does anyone have any more optimistic updates about this?

It took me a week to go from requesting access to receiving access for my domain when I signed up earlier this month. I was already using cloudflare for my dns so maybe that sped things up?

Simplelogin works great for me, and replying back also works well

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