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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If you just wanted email forwarding, cloudflare support it. If I remember correctly, it’s included in their free plan
https://improvmx.com/ may be what you want.
Great suggestion, thanks. For anyone reading through, it looks like it will just forward all the emails for a domain to a single email address, for free. That’s definitely what I want for one of my domains. But the other one I’ve used some addresses for family, so that will have to go through a provider.
Not sure if that is what you mean, but you can also add different “redirection targets” for different addresses on the same domain in the free tier.
Ah yes! That’s exactly what I had & need. Thank you.
Also - lol. I assumed this was a screenshot of your domain, and I was like, hang on…
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.
I’ve been using Anonaddy for that for quite a while and it’s great.
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.
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/
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.
Yep, I can live with no sending, so a forwarding only solution works. I didn’t know about the SMTP relays, but a couple of people have mentioned them. I guess I’d try without that first - it might be luck if my ip/hosting service has low trust with gmail.
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.
TIL there are providers that don’t support that.
I’ll throw fastmail in the ring, happy customer for almost a decade. Advantage over just forwarding is that you can also reply with the mail you received it at.
I’ll second Fastmail.
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.
