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I own a custom domain for my main email provider so if I switch to a new one I won't have to change all my address for contacting people. I am considering buy a separate domain for just my email forwarding service.

What do people on here do?

Current Setup:

domain1.com - for main email

alias.domain1.com - for email forwarding with Addy.io

Option:

domain1.com - for main email

domain2.com - for email forwarding with Addy.io

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[โ€“] gkaklas@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 days ago

I don't think that there is a need for that ๐Ÿค”

I haven't used Addy so I don't know specific details, but I guess you could forward the emails to addresses with a prefix, e.g.

addy-site1@domain.com
addy-site2@domain.com

You can then just use sieve filters to categorise them in the folders you'd like:

Inbox
Sent
Addy
- Site1
- Site2

The only reason I've been thinking that you would need a separate domain, is if you are self-hosting a service like Addy: if websites realize that your domain is used for "random" addresses, your main domain might end up in a blacklist as a spam precaution (whereas with a dedicated forwarding domain, only the forwarded emails would be at risk)