Email Design
Email is important to maintain security and privacy of because it's personal communication with others. During the great exodus of Google products and services, I migrated my email and began moving a lot of services to self-hosting alternatives. But this page is about email specifically.
Hosting
Current Host:
Future Hosting
Self-hosting email requires 100% uptime and reliable hardware, so I'm waiting until I have a more robust server setup before attempting it.
Domains and Aliases
@primary-domain.com
@user1.secondary-domain.com
@secondary-domain.com
@user2.secondary-domain.com
@anon.secondary-domain.com
The System
The cleanest, safest email (family and friends) go to the primary domain. The secondary domain goes to regularly interacted businesses, with wildcards for each individual business. The anon subdomain emails are throwaways for everything else; one-off uses, non-regularly checked businesses, subscriptions, etc. This maintains a much easier, much more foolproof inboxing system, and silos the domains from real information.
user1@primary-domain.com and user2@primary-domain.com
- Used for family and friends that are known to not be business emails
user1@secondary-domain.com and user2@secondary-domain.com
- Used for regular interaction with common businesses
*@user1.secondary-domain.com and *@user2.secondary-domain.com and *@anon.secondary-domain.com
- Wild cards on separate subdomains all for easy filtering, removing, spam-blocking, and isolation
- Wildcards let you create emails on the spot to give to businesses, like a fake phone number that forwards to your real phone number.
- You can either block that sender from the inbox, or
- You can delete that email address from the server and no one can send email to the email you made up on the spot
- Wildcards let you create emails on the spot to give to businesses, like a fake phone number that forwards to your real phone number.
Email Rules
Archiving
All emails on all clients. Actions on delete. Actions on archive.
Do all emails just get archived and offload to server archive? Does delete actually delete? Move to trash for spam, archive all the rest?
PGP
Proxy/DNS
WebDAV/CardDAV/CalDAV
Server connection and synchronization