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Nic Coates

How do you handle mail on your side project?!

👋 Hey makers! I’m busy working on a side project (or two…) and I’m looking for suggestions on how other makers manage mail/email for their side projects. Do you use mail forwarding? Add domain to GSuite? Set up a free email (Gmail/Outlook)?

I have a personal domain that I accept email on which is configured on ProtonMail (I’m making a huge transition to taken back control of my privacy from Google so using PM fits my need) but my current plan only can have 1 domain.

Let me know what you do below 👇

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Sergio Mattei

Hi Nick - I usually handle mail using two apps:

  1. ZohoMail: handles personal website/custom domain email. It's free and packed with features + their premium plans are extremely cheap. Can be wonky sometimes with deliverability but it's fine.
  2. Mailgun or Amazon SES: cheap transactional email. You can send tens of thousands of emails a month for extremely cheap with these.
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Nic Coates Author

Thanks Sergio! I’m a little hesitant to use Zoho as am a little concerned about privacy hence why I’m using ProtonMail 😁

However, I’m actually implementing Mailgun with one of my projects (gowave.at) so am thinking I could use the mail routing options to set up a rule where email sent to a specific address forwards to my email, change MX on the main domain and BOOM. Should work.

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Nic Coates Author

Actually, I won’t be setting up routing. Now you have to upgrade to Premium on the Foundation plan at $35 a month! More than happy to pay but not paying that!

All I’m looking for is just a simple low-cost way to set up 1/2 aliases on a domain that forward to an email address. Anyone used ImprovMX?

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MenjilX

@gadgick Currently I am using Gsuite as my main business email for me to use custom domain but I am interested in learning more about ImproveMX.

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Isis Casalduc

Depending on the project. But for three if them I am using Yandex. Connected my domains and I am using their free service.

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Sergio Mattei

How are you finding the service?

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Isis Casalduc

@sergio I like it!!! Really like the interface and app. The setup can be a PITA >.< . Part of it is that as you know, I am not very familiar with CS. I just hammer my way through building what I want. But part of it is that they are making some changes and improving but sometimes you get stuck because you click on something and it loads a page in… RUSSIAN. At which point I can't understand anything lol. But as I said, it's a pain point I am willing to deal with when trying to save $$$ if I need a few emails!

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Sergio Mattei

@schatzi Tried zoho?

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MenjilX

I tried their FREE service but the only thing that holds me back is the language barrier.

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Nic Coates Author

Thanks for the recommendations so far! I’ve (currently) gone with the below:

Inbound / forwarding: ImprovMX (so set up hellow@gowave.at to forward to my email)

Outbound: Mailgun

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Bruce

you can use improvmx for outbound as well

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Nic Coates Author

@bcye Yeah, I'm going to have a look but I'm really confident in setting up Mailgun within NodeJS.

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Vivian Guillen

I just discovered ImprovMX from you, nice find! Switching to it from ForwardMX, love the interface.

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Teo

I’ve deployed poste.io on my own server for this. I’m using the free version.

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David M

i use privatemail.com by namecheap very good interface, fast, low subscription price, good spam filter - i use them as my domain register so setup is as simple as clicking a button and paying the subscription

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