Welcome to Software Development on Codidact!
Will you help us build our independent community of developers helping developers? We're small and trying to grow. We welcome questions about all aspects of software development, from design to code to QA and more. Got questions? Got answers? Got code you'd like someone to review? Please join us.
Comments on I don't want to setup DKIM, SPF and to do SMTP authentication ; an hosting-provider-email-box solves this but what if I want a domain-registrar-email-box instead?
Post
I don't want to setup DKIM, SPF and to do SMTP authentication ; an hosting-provider-email-box solves this but what if I want a domain-registrar-email-box instead?
On a shared hosting (CentOS-Bash) I have a website with a backend (PHP) - frontend CMS-agnostic contact form.
I need to transfer emails sent via this contact form directly to an email address (I don't save anything in my website's database).
I don't want to setup DKIM, SPF and to do SMTP authentication because for me it's an overkill --- I don't send emails to anyone from my website domain - but to myself. I also don't want to use PHPmailer ; I use a simple PHP mail() directive set.
If I create an email address on my hosting provider's end than I should have no technical problem;
The hosting domain and the website domain will match, DKIM/SPF are set and SMTP/MTA are configured and I could also have an aesthetic address such as info@example.com without fearing that such an address being already in use in generally every third party email service provider.
At least I might want to use third party email provider.
-
Large-gratis email service providers such as Baidu, Gmail, Hotmail and Yandex are quite strict in their spam or alleged-as-spam filtering and I am afraid that if I would work with one of them but would make even the slightest configuration mistake on my hosting environment (and I think there is a lot to configure with emails and much potential for mistakes) I could lose many potential customers.
-
I thought about buying an email box from my domain registrar, than I could also have an aesthetic name such as
info@example.comwithout such an address being already in use but my main problem with that approach is that I don't know what to expect; my domain registrar is also a huge company with potentially millions of customers and might have ardent spam or alleged-as-spam filtering so buying an email address from it might end in similar problems to those I could experience with the large-gratis email service providers such as those mentioned above.
Can I still easily use an email address outside of my hosting account domain (in this case, in my domain registrar)?
"easily" here means "without configurations at all - something that 'just works'".
1 comment thread