@ron @orionwl Pretty low. It's kinda a complex topic, because there's a few different attack scenarios. But basically, subverting DNS records is pretty noisey in most circumstances, so it's not likely at all that a DNS provider would do it. Not entirely impossible. But I've never heard of one doing it.

@pete @orionwl I see, thanks a lot. OTOH, it could technically be seized right? More context from PM team regarding .com and .ch domain choice: https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/what-is-the-difference-between-protonmail-com-and-protonmail-ch/

@ron @orionwl Depends on what domain name you pick.

Anyway seizure is a risk for any country code. It's not that common though.

@pete @orionwl Thanks, and one last thing: you mentioned “getting your own domain, preferably self hosting”. What do you mean by self-hosting domain, or were you referring to self-hosting email ?

@orionwl At least use a custom domain to make it easy to switch in the future: https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/custom-domain-support/

That's just a few minutes of work to setup.

@pete heh i have that setup, it's not something i advertise but you can actually mail me on the mastodon address and it ends up in the protonmail box 😀

@orionwl Good! If you didn't, I'd have to point out that in addition to fine arts grads, I even know some fine arts dropouts that managed to figure out how to use their own domain for email. 😂

@orionwl BTW in case you aren't aware, gmail does allow you to forward all mail to another address.

@pete @orionwl and in such cases what I've done is also add a "vacation auto response" in gmail that notifies people that the address, while being forwarded, is not the preferred means of reaching out.

@pox @pete that's a great idea, thanks !

@pox @pete though OTOH, i receive a lot of spam and notifications on my gmail address that i'd rather be rid of, so i'm not sure

@orionwl @pete easy, forward them in a way that matches a rule in your target inbox that tags all forwarded messages as such. e.g. "old_gmail".
idk if proton lets you do this but it works well when migrating between gmail accounts.
btw, caveat, expect to get some bounceback noise from bots that keep sending you spam to the old address (gmail's vacation responder will try to auto-reply to them and then forward the bounce back to you 😁)
still worth it imo

@orionwl @pete checkout mailcow.mail 👍

Built with postfix, dovecot, and rspamd.

I run it behind a firewall, I only open up port 25 to receive email. IMAPS and SMTPS are only accessible via trusted networks.

@orionwl @pete I used to run vanilla postfix, spamassassin, and dovecot for years, but since switched to mailcow.