Before you compare EU email providers, get your own domain. It is the single change that lets you switch providers later without redoing the painful migration.
I have firstname@lastname.countrycode and occasionally I get people that it breaks their brain that it’s not @gmail or something and they insist its wrong or won’t work.
It’s even worse when some idiot dev decides what an email should look like and doesn’t properly implement RFC822 (or whichever one specifies all the random bits of a valid email address).
The current recommendation is to check for an @ symbol. It’s pretty much the only concrete rule.
If an email address has to exist, the only way is to send it an email and have the user click a link.
I was too late for that, unfortunately and got <lastname>.<town> which also some people don’t comprehend.
Although it’s the capitol and there are sites from public services which use that TLD as well.
What genuinely pisses me off: Prior to that I got <lastname>.name, and there are sites, which refuse to accept it as a valid TLD when I try to register with them.
Edit: I got <lastname[with umlauts]>.<countrycode>, tho as this was available, but those don’t work that well. Or didn’t, when I last checked.
I have a complicated surname, so when people ask for my email I just show them my ID and say “firstname@lastname.de” and they can type it in, reading it off the card.
It’s made my life so easy!
I also kept all of my spam mails of the last twenty years and trained rspamd with it. It’s got a 99.9% success rate. I’d even argue it works better than some corporate mail providers (what also helps is that I provide the mail service for friends & family as well and we are all collectively training the database).
It was a pain to setup initially, but I don’t want to miss it.
I got [surname].de over twenty years ago and I am so happy about that. Google can gargle my balls, I run postfix, rspamd, dovecot and roundcube.
I did too. I feel smug when I’m asked for my email.
I have firstname@lastname.countrycode and occasionally I get people that it breaks their brain that it’s not @gmail or something and they insist its wrong or won’t work.
Funny but also mildy annoying at times.
It’s even worse when some idiot dev decides what an email should look like and doesn’t properly implement RFC822 (or whichever one specifies all the random bits of a valid email address).
The current recommendation is to check for an
@symbol. It’s pretty much the only concrete rule.If an email address has to exist, the only way is to send it an email and have the user click a link.
https://beesbuzz.biz/code/439-Falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-email
I was too late for that, unfortunately and got <lastname>.<town> which also some people don’t comprehend.
Although it’s the capitol and there are sites from public services which use that TLD as well.
What genuinely pisses me off: Prior to that I got <lastname>.name, and there are sites, which refuse to accept it as a valid TLD when I try to register with them.
Edit: I got <lastname[with umlauts]>.<countrycode>, tho as this was available, but those don’t work that well. Or didn’t, when I last checked.
I have a complicated surname, so when people ask for my email I just show them my ID and say “firstname@lastname.de” and they can type it in, reading it off the card.
It’s made my life so easy!
I also kept all of my spam mails of the last twenty years and trained rspamd with it. It’s got a 99.9% success rate. I’d even argue it works better than some corporate mail providers (what also helps is that I provide the mail service for friends & family as well and we are all collectively training the database).
It was a pain to setup initially, but I don’t want to miss it.
I too have had noone ever say anything about the fact I have a surname domain when I am telling them my email.
It doesn’t work if someone else registered that domain already >:(
Though it is interesting they apparently registered it in 2006. Maybe you stole my domain before I was legally able to.