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Is this necessary? Gmail and Namecheap do this for free. I recently set up a domain and was able to set up Gmail and Mail.app to both send and receive as that email.

I also use Fastmail and set that up with a domain no problem.

Maybe I’m missing what this is for.

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The Namecheap email forwarding service quietly drops all email it thinks is spam. And their spam filter is too aggressive. There is no way to know that an email was dropped. I missed a lot if emails until I figured this out.

Yes, exactly this. Mailwip has 2 features to discover this

1- Mailog(opt-in, disable by default): Once enabling you can choose the detail of logging to see the delivery status. 2- Spam digest: (opt-in, disable by default). We will send a daily summarize if there is email we flagged and didn't forward to you.

Oh that’s interesting.

With mailbox.org I am in complete darkness if some mail was dropped after or before my mail client and mailbox.org support is well mailbox.org support. So I don’t really know what happened.

So if an email was dropped even from spam - there’s some log display interface for my account where I can see all this?

Or if something I was sending was dropped — I can see that as well in there? (Assuming neither were shown as a failure email in my mailbox)

Ugh. Thank you for mentioning this. I've actually forgotten about their spam filter dropping emails rather than letting downstream providers handle it.

Most of the time these service works. But when it doesn't work you just don't know how to debug it.

Mailwip.com has a mail log with the detail so you can debug delivery issue. Also, manage email with namecheap ui dns is something I just don't want to deal with.

I want some nice UI, that also enable a few member of family to self-manage the domain and forward rule.

Sometime I also want to have webhook to parse receipt email from the bank. So I ended up building all of this.

If gmail and namecheap works for you, no need to look further.

Aha, thank you!

I did not know about the silent drops. That is concerning.

If you want a custom domain with Gmail, you need to use Google workspace which costs like $8 a month or something like that.

Seems like a necessary service to me. I'm interested at least and I have a custom domain hosted with Google workspace.

I'm in the same boat, custom domain, but I'd like to get away from a US-hosted mail service if possible. Problem is, gDocs is pretty good for the price. I wish Proton had more workspace products like that.

I would like to hear a response to this query too.

But just leaving it here that Gmail has a limit of about 30 custom emails in a single mailbox, no?

You used gmail with your own domain for free?

No, he made namecheap forward incoming emails to domain to his email.

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