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Oof, time to bite the bullet and switch email providers. Shit like this is why I've spent the last couple years de-googling my life.
Do it! It's not that bad. Everyone's got different needs, but I switched to fastmail and have been enjoying it.
If you're making the switch anyway, get yourself a domain name from a separate company to run it through. That way in the future you can keep using your domain even if you switch mail/web-hosting providers.
I have a domain and an email address through it, but my problem is I can't find a domain name I like enough to both keep and give out to others as a long term contact point. The one I have right now is silly, and not easy to communicate over the phone.
It's a me problem, but if I ever figure out something I'm will to keep and is available, that's the goal.
Have two:
The silly one for personal or non-professional stuff like Steam
The professional one for the ones you are meeting irl.
The domain I use professionally is simply my full name. Then I use a catch-all so I can give out a mailbox specific to who it's for. Often that looks like YourCompany@MyName.com That way if I get spammed I know who to blame.
Yeah, that's the part I'm having trouble with. Can't decide on something serious, easy to communicate and that I like. Definitely a me problem.
How about "MyEmailDomainDotComButThatWasTheWordDotNotADotSymbolDot.com" - super easy to communicate
Damn, someone beat me to it!
Two minor concerns about this approach:
Will the lesser known domain name make your emails more likely to be filtered as spam? I don't know the answer, but I am fairly sure it wouldn't help.
Will having your email routed through a middleman open up security issues? Probably solveable with diligence and awareness, but I recently had a non-technical friend with this setup get his Gmail breached because he was forwarding it to an email inbox on his personal domain from decades earlier that he forgot about, and didn't have 2FA on the domain webmail. IMHO an easy oversight for anyone, honestly.