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Oh I've been waiting for this. blog.fastmail.com/2017/06/26/d

Good time to recommend FastMail again, I use it for all my mail, personal and business. 50$/year, 2FA and no ads of course, good spam filter, custom domains and aliases (including wildcards), SMTP/IMAP with unique app passwords, good Android app.

It's a serious mail service and much more reliable and time saving than managing your own mail servers.

@CobaltVelvet There are less expensive levels than the $50/year for personal accounts on one of Fastmail's domains. I have been a happy Fastmail user for a few years now.

@skquinn yes, though I've mostly needed them for the custom domains feature.

@CobaltVelvet The point at which my webhost's "forward everything emailed to any address at the domain to a designated email address" no longer meets my needs, I will probably wind up just running my own email server on a VPS. Though it's nice to know Fastmail can do that too if needed.

@skquinn I've been doing so for a few years. Then I redirected everything to FM and wrote this : :p blog.xomg.net/hosting-your-own

I still have one SMTP server for a domain with many users, but it forwards my mail to FM so I can not store any of it without strong 2FA.

@CobaltVelvet Are you sure that's the right URL for the blog post? I can't get it to load.

Shawn K. Quinn @skquinn

@CobaltVelvet

skquinn@moonpatrol:~$ host blog.xomg.net
Host blog.xomg.net not found: 2(SERVFAIL)

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@skquinn $ host blog.xomg.net
blog.xomg.net has address 212.47.237.109

huh, I'm guessing DNSSEC. I'll see if namecheap broke something again.

@CobaltVelvet If I ask the servers on xomg.net's whois record I get the proper reply. So this could be another Comcastic issue...

@skquinn There are a few errors here: dnssec-debugger.verisignlabs.c

I disabled DNSSEC at namecheap, it should work in a few minutes.