For decades I've been using Gmail with its "send mail as" feature to have my own domain (runevision.com) appearing as the "from" address.

[runevision@mastodon.gamedev.place]

For decades I've been using Gmail with its "send mail as" feature to have my own domain (runevision.com) appearing as the "from" address. Today I experienced a mail outright bouncing due to lack of SPF or DKIM authentication.

A bit of research reveals that without paying for Google Workspace, there's no way to fix this. Regular Gmail's "send mail as" feature is broken in practice, as email handlers such as Yahoo will now categorically reject mails using it. 1/2

[runevision@mastodon.gamedev.place]

What do other people with their own domains use? Running my own mail server or similar is out of the question, I'm not very technical when it comes to IT/admin work.

I have no experience with Google Workspace; it seems highly geared towards large organizations, with lots of bloat that's useless to me. It has an "individual" tier too, but that doesn't have the custom domain email authentication support as far as I can see. Apparently being an individual with one's own domain is unheard of. 2/2

[portaloffreedom@social.linux.pizza]

@runevision for something as simple as a one account email, usually domain providers offer that for free. In my case (infomaniak) it does.

Otherwise there are a few email services I keep bumping on my timeline. The one that comes to mind first is @Tutanota