I have a unique name, think John Doe, and Iโm hoping to create a unique and โprofessionalโ looking email account like johndoe@gmail.com or john@doe.com. Since my name is common, all reasonable permutations are taken. I was considering purchasing a domain with something unique, then making personal family email accounts for john@mydoe.com jane@mydoe.com etc.
Consider that Iโm starting from scratch (I am). Is there a preferred domain registrar, are GoDaddy or NameCheap good enough? Are there prebuilt services I can just point my domain to or do I need to spin up a VPS and install my own services? Are there concerns tying my accounts to a service that might go under or are some โtoo big to failโ?
I can expand what hangs off the domain later, but for now I just need a way to make my own email addresses and use them with the relative ease of Gmail or others. Thanks in advance!!
I set this up a couple years ago but I seem to remember AWS walking me through the initial setup.
First youโll need to configure your domain(s) in SES. It requires you to set some DNS records to verify ownership. Youโll also need to configure your SPF record(s) to allow email to be sent through SES. They provide you with all of this information.
Next, youโll need to configure SES credentials or it wonโt accept mail from your servers. From a security standpoint, if you have multiple SMTP servers I would give each a unique set of credentials but you can get away with one for simplicity.
Finally youโll need to configure your MTA to relay through SES. If you use postfix hereโs a quick guide: https://medium.com/@cloudinit/sending-emails-with-postfix-and-amazon-ses-2341489a97e2
Iโve got postfix configured on each of my VPS servers, plus and internal relay, to relay all mail through SES. To the best of my knowledge itโs worked fine. I havenโt had issues with mail getting dropped or flagged as SPAM.
There is a cost, but with my email volumes (which are admittedly low) it costs me 2-3 cents a month.
