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I have custom domains forwarding emails to a couple of gmail accounts. It's a PITA.

I still have issues receiving emails. Especially from financial institutions. (Wells Fargo emails just... stopped. So I gave up and setup a gmail just for them.)

I have issues sending emails from my custom domain.

IRL I always have to explain that yes, my email address is YourCompany@MyDomain.com, but no, I don't actually work for YourCompany.

Over two decades, I have played whack a mole with a number of problems. Switching to a hosting provider that does not allow me to forward <any>@customdomain.com helped. It only allows explicitly forwarded email accounts, and setting up the email address explicitly passes most email validation tests, and I suspect the underlying IP is less likely to be blacklisted by fin tech that is extra careful about who they email.

Wells Fargo recently (couple months ago) had mailserver issues where they failed to realize they had actually delivered the email. They sent me about 20 copies of each email, then after a week sent an notice how they cannot send me an email . Even though they’ve got their 250 proper from my MTA.

But they had fixed it since then, now emails work fine. I suspect they had some bug on their side, because I haven’t seen anything suspicious on mine (and nothing had changed on my side).

Idk what was that.