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I found this: https://kb.mailbox.org/en/private/custom-domains/using-emails-with-a-custom-domain/#specifics-for-family-accounts
So yes, you have to use a different MX record, but you can share a domain name with your family. I switched to them this week, but haven't managed to decide on a family domain name, as we all have different last names ๐. Will probably use multiple domains.
Thanks for the confirmation. Do you know if it is possible to connect one alias to multiple mailboxes?
And I get your pain on the domains as well. Trying to do the same here. But I will for sure have one domain for all of us only for important things like bank, mortgage and medical which doesn't get exposed to anything else.
I don't know if Mailbox does this but technically speaking it should definitely be possible, as long as the mailboxes are on the same domain. (If you cross domains it's not aliasing anymore, it's forwarding.)
I know Migadu has this feature and it works as intended.
Speaking of Migadu it's another good option but they only do email, nothing else (no calendar, no drive etc.) They have an interesting pricing model where the account owner pays for a certain tier of storage and of emails sent/received per day, but inside that account you can have as many mailboxes, logins, domains and aliases as you want. It can become cost-effective very fast, as low as 2-3 users.
My use case is that I would like for example mortgages my domain.tld to be sent to mybajd my wife's inbox.
Correct me if I misunderstood, but one of the reasons I disconsidered migadu is that only the account owner can create aliases for others to use. For me it's important that my wife can independently create aliases as she needs it.
You can appoint multiple accounts as administrators at Migadu, provided you're not on the Micro plan.
Another option would be the "pattern rewrites" feature of Migadu. It's a sort of "wildcard alias". You, as admin, can define an alias with a asterisk in it (let's say
bla.*@) for one of the wife's mailboxes, and she could give out addresses with the asterisk replaced by anything she wants (bla.amazon@,bla.ebay@etc.)You can define more than one such wildcard pattern, you could make for her
shop.*@,bank.*@,bills.*@,social.*@, and so on, a pattern for every occasion.She would still not be able to edit these aliases but she would be able to make them up on the fly (as long as they match the fixed part of a wildcard). You can even send from these aliases (you simply use them as your "From" address in the mail client).
I haven't actually set up a family account yet, so can't answer on that, sorry!