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That's all fine and dandy until you gleefully enter your email on websites or services, only to get a "Sorry! We don't recognize that domain. Please use a Gmail, Hotmail/Outlook, Yahoo or iCloud address or fuck off!"
And the trend to whitelist only a small number of email services and block everything else is becoming the norm, all in the name of "fighting spam".
A good way to fight that is using custom domains whenever you give a mail address directly (in person) to a public administration or company.
They will be forced to solve it if it doesn't work and this will go as a reverse trend.
Sending complaints to the services also work.
Well, I usually fuck off then and most of the time I'm rewarded by my information not leaking from people who don't understand technology.
Wow, that never happened to me In the ten years I've been hosting my e-mails but I would avoid those websites like the plague.
The only weird thing I encounter is some site asking to replace my tld (.re) thinking that I'm mistaking
Yes true, and for that reason too around span. There are like three heavy steps to jump through to get your self-hosted mail recognised, but it is a bit of a pain.