I have an ancient domain that for years has been hosted with a company that allowed wildcard email forwarding - so *@example.com was forwarded to my gmail. So over the years, I’ve just used a new email address for every signup of anything.
Sadly, the company is getting out of hosting, so I need to move the domain somewhere. The commercial email hosting I’ve seen seen around is all paid for per mailbox.
Is there a commercial email host that would allow a wildcard like that?
I have low desire to run my own email hosting, but perhaps if it’s just a bunch of forwards that might be simpler?
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I’ll second Fastmail.
Cloudflare has a catch-all option that you can enable, but they only allow you to receive emails not send them. https://developers.cloudflare.com/email-routing/setup/email-routing-addresses/
They actually recently opened a beta for sending emails from Workers as well. There are already a few projects to make use of this, examples:
Depends on what you’re after but I recently switched to Protonmail and they allow you to use your own domain and set up a catch-all. If you like what they’re offering in terms of encryption and all, it might a great solution for you.
You also get access to their other products too, like their VPN.
A lot of cPanel hosting includes email with wildcard capability. I set it up sometimes for clients. Feel free to DM me if you have any questions.
I also suggest cPanel. You can get a web host with Cpanel from about £20-£30 a year.
setup emails, wildcards, host a site, let’s encrypt options, etc. May as well get the most bang for ya buck.
Migadu is the best email hoster I know. I’ve been using them for all my emails during the last three years and never had an issue.
They allow catch-all recipients and forwarding, so your use-case should be possible.
Second that, I’m hosting my catch-all through Migadu. They support it on their cheapest tier, and it works with no issue.
You might want to transfer your domain to another registrar. I use namecheap and they have a “catch all” option that’s free to use. You just set a single forwarding email and everything sent to your domain arrives there.
Google Domains has catch-all redirect email, and is on the cheap side I’d say.
If you haven’t read the news: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/16/23763340/google-domains-sunset-sell-squarespace
Ooops no, I wasn’t aware. Drats, Google again doing Google things.
I also have a different address for every account I have, I’m currently using cloudflare to forward everything to my gmail address, using SMPT in gmail I’m also able to send from those addresses in case I need it.
Downside is I need to enter SMTP for each e-mail address I want to send from, but i really only ever send from info@. Spam wise there’s no issue if you’ve set up SPF, DKIM and DMARC records properly.
https://improvmx.com/ may be what you want.
I use Gandi as my domain host, then Tutanota as my email provider which can be used as a catch-all mail box. I pay like $12/yr for their service, their service is e2ee, and all of their clients are FOSS. Great company to support.
If you just wanted email forwarding, cloudflare support it. If I remember correctly, it’s included in their free plan
I’ve been using Anonaddy for that for quite a while and it’s great.
If you by any chance are an apple user and you already pay for apples icloud+ service (eg via Apple one), you can do it via there as well.
I assume getting your mail caught in spam folder is not a problem for your use case, right? Then get the cheapest vps you can find on lowendtalk and run mailcow. Use SMTP relay option (with Mailgun, Amazon SES, etc) if the provider disallow outbound SMTP.