Ask HN: Thoughts on personal domain email solution

3 lemonlime227 0 6/29/2025, 12:54:13 PM

I've posted about this a month ago, and I want some thoughts on a proposed email solution.

I've had a personal domain for a couple years and I'd like to start using it for email. On my previous Ask HN post, the most serious issue was emails from non-megacorp (Gmail, Outlook) servers can get flagged for outbound mail. The solution I've come up with is this:

Tier 1 email (Banking, can affect my life mail): Stick to my battle-tested, personal outlook account

Tier 2 email (General mail): Bite the bullet and set up a Google Workspace account with my personal domain. The 30 high importance addresses out of this category can receive email aliases for use.

Tier 3 email (Other): Use routing rules in Google Workspace to send these to Purelymail for handling. This way, I can still send emails from those addresses (compared to catch-all where I can't send email).

Thoughts on this email solution? The main thing I'm looking at is if I'd really need to send mail from catch-all. 30 aliases just seems a bit too low if I'd want an email per major product.

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Ask HN: Thoughts on personal domain email solution

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