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Hi! I don't know if this is the correct place, but is the /r that can be most close.
I've my custom domain, and suppose that is "myname.com". Furthermore, I've some self-hosted services, like a blog, my webpage, n8n, Plausible, Home Assistant... and the idea is that this services use a specific email to send emails. My domain provider gets me only 1 custom email for free, but as you can send an email "as another email", my idea is to configure the SMTP with this main free email, and set "from:" in every service. For example, for my blog, I send emails as "[email protected]", for my HA, "[email protected]" ... Of course, this emails only can send emails, but not receive.
But... I want to use the main email for my personal communication, mostly for "serious" emails like work or professional stuff. So, my question is, taking into account that the domain have my name, and I'm not a company, but just a person, what would be a good "name" for this email? [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]...
Thanks in advance for your ideas!
Edit: thanks to all for your comments! I think the best way will be use "contact@..." as main address (more general) and then maybe just pay for a dedicated email server to use all the other addresses.
Edit2: after all the comments, I checked the options for my mail service, and I found that I can create "redirects", that is a new email address but without dedicated space, so with this I can redirect this addresses to my main address. I didn't know this functionality, and I though to receive (accept) emails to an address you need to have a dedicated space. So, many thanks again to all :)
I would personally recommend the equivalent of [email protected], which is the format I use. I agree with your assessment — to me, emails like [email protected] and [email protected] seem a bit too playful or informal. I like to use one email address across all the services I use, so something that is completely neutral is key. Hard to get more neutral than [email protected], in my opinion.
The benefit to [email protected] is that it helps reinforce the fact that this person is, indeed, emailing you, and no one else. [email protected] would probably work in most contexts, but to me it adds a layer of ambiguity — when I see that, I have to think twice and make sure that there's no one else who would be receiving this email ("is this really going to John, or is there a dedicated support person answering emails?"). This is less problematic when it's someone's personal site, but for small businesses where it's really not clear whether there might be a support staff responding to emails, I then have to look it up and potentially resort to omitting a name in the salutation of my email, or writing "Dear John Doe Support", or something similar. Not optimal.
Lastly, I live in America but have a non-American first name, which gets misspelled a lot. Having to type my first name twice in my email address helps reinforce the spelling, leading to less awkwardness for the other person.
[email protected]- for admin stuff[email protected]- for support stuff[email protected]- for hr stuff[email protected]- for communication over mail
Such email ids are fairly standard nowadays.
Am I better off using a known provider such as @gmail.com or @yahoo.com?
If you own your own email domain name then why go for other email providers. Its always nice to go with your own.
I will suggest you to go with [email protected] as it looks very consistent. This format is being used widely nowadays. Its also very easy to remember for the people emailing you.