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Avoiding context switching when reading my custom email domain emails

Previously I used to setup a GSUITE domain with a new business, but I always regretted it and it was hard to use. I would always eventually neglect checking it and start missing emails.

For webcode.run I am trying a different approach using forwardemail.net. I can configure it to forward email to gmail, and gmail can be configured to send outbound email using the custom domain. So now I can manage all the new email addresses from inside my personal email with no context switching necessary.

All it required was some DNS configuration. I think this is a much better approach going forward, and it's cheaper too!

on January 7, 2022
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    Hat off to you Tom! Few tools manage to solve a JTBD so elegantly. I wonder how ForwardEmail may interfere with our Chrome extension for Gmail... any discoveries around this matter?

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      its not doing anything gmail wasn't designed for, so if there is a problem it would be a limitation of the extensions, but I have shown a few people this trick and they also love it and I am yet to receive any feedback about technical problems. So I would expect no issues.

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        nice! I'll test it out myself (on my Gmail + our Chrome extension) and let you know if I run into any issue. Thanks!