--- title: "Personal email on your own domain - OpenEmail" description: "Own the domain, invent an address for every signup, read without tracking pixels, and find every file in one searchable list" url: "https://openemail.uk/use-cases/personal-email" --- Email for one person # Email that outlives every provider you leave Your domain, an address you invent for each signup, and nothing reporting back when you read. Change provider later and the addresses come with the domain. [Open mail](https://openemail.uk/mail/inbox) [Get Started](https://openemail.uk/signup.md)[All use cases](https://openemail.uk/use-cases.md) you@yourname.com Addresses you left 2015 jd\_1994@freemail.example 2019 j.doe@firstjob.example 2024 doe.j@thatprovider.example me@ myname.com Delivered Providers come and go. The domain you own does not. Where it starts ## What this looks like today. The address ends in someone else's name Change provider and you change address, then tell everyone who writes to you. One address on every form The bank, a newsletter and a forum from 2011 all land in the same place. Senders know when you read An invisible image loads from their server the moment the message is drawn. How it works ## Running in four steps. 1. 01 Add your domain Settings, Domains takes the name and prints the records you need to publish. 2. 02 Publish the records Paste them at your DNS host, and the domain goes green once they resolve. 3. 03 Invent an address per signup Type jobs@yours.com into the form, and the address exists when mail lands, up to 500 a domain. 4. 04 Read them in one stream The inbox merges every address, and each reply goes out as the one it arrived on. What it runs on ## The parts doing the work. The parts of OpenEmail this runs on, each with a page of its own. Multiple domains Point several domains at one inbox, subdomains included. acme.com acme.dev team.acme.com hey.acme.io Catch-all addresses Every address on the domain receives, including ones that have never been created. One switch closes it. hello@ yourdomain.com delivered billing@ yourdomain.com delivered careers@ yourdomain.com delivered anything-at-all@ yourdomain.com delivered oct-2026-signup@ yourdomain.com delivered Send as any alias Reply from the exact address the mail arrived on. to billing@acme.com from billing@acme.com Tracking pixels stripped The invisible image that tells a sender you opened their mail is gone before you see the message. tracking pixel stripped hidden preheader stripped remote image stripped 0 left to phone home Remote image control Stop a sender fetching anything from their own server while you read. tracking pixel stripped hidden preheader stripped remote image stripped 0 left to phone home Bring your old mailbox Bring the mail you already have: a Google Takeout export from Gmail, or an .mbox file from Apple Mail, Thunderbird and most desktop apps, threaded and dated as it was. Your mail on object storage Full message bodies and attachment bytes on R2, indexed per mailbox. Object storage 12% streamed, never re-encoded Merged inboxes Read every address in one stream, or narrow to the two or three you actually work out of. hello@acme.com me@acme.dev support@acme.io one inbox Forward an address elsewhere Point any address, or everything a domain accepts, at an outside mailbox instead of this one. In practice ## Every piece, walked through. Shorter walkthroughs for the jobs inside it, one screen at a time. Email at your name Own the domain your email lives on, and the address stays yours whatever else changes. 2015 jd\_1994@freemail.example 2019 j.doe@firstjob.example me@ myname.com Any address you invent Every address on your domain arrives, including the ones you never created. Sign-up form shop@acme.com shop@acme.com Delivered Read without being tracked Tracking pixels come out before a message is drawn, and remote images load only when you allow them. Images are off Show images Requests to sender 0 Point addresses anywhere Own the addresses on your domain, and have them land in mailboxes people already use. hello@ acme.com ben@personal.example ops@oldhost.example Every file in one place Every attachment this mailbox sent or received, searchable, weighed and one click from its message. Search files 4/4 PDF invoice-4821.pdf 248 KB PDF q3-report.pdf 1.2 MB PNG q3-chart.png 640 KB PDF invoice-4822.pdf 262 KB Write it faster Give the composer a one line note and get back a draft that sounds like you. Subject Hold order 4471 until Friday ask priya to hold 4471 until friday Hi Priya, thanks for the quick turnaround. Can you hold order 4471 until Friday? Reach inbox zero Every thread opens with a summary, clears with one key, and can be handed to a rule. Inbox 2 left dana@northwind.co Archive events@lumen.io They want the invoice reissued. Questions ## Asked before signing up. Can I bring the mail I already have? Yes. Upload an export of the old mailbox in Settings under Import and it arrives threaded and dated as it was. New mail lands here from the moment the records resolve. Does this stop every way a sender can track me? No. The one pixel image comes out and remote images stay unloaded until you allow them, but trusting a sender fetches their images from their own server, and that request is visible to them. Can mail still land in the mailbox I use now? Yes. Point one address, or everything the domain accepts, at an outside mailbox. Forwarding starts only after that destination clicks its confirmation link. Nearby ## Other jobs for the same mailbox. Hand out addresses Every form wants an address. Give each one its own, see which starts getting spam, and switch that one off without touching the rest. q7k2m9@ pooled domain 58:12 Your verification code 09:41 Leave your old provider Point your domain at OpenEmail and create the addresses your company already uses. They land in one stream, and you reply from the exact one written to. acme.com Receiving MX @ TXT @ CNAME mail.\_domainkey hello@ acme.com oct-signup@ acme.com never created Keep your domain yours Publish the records that prove your mail is yours. Every message that arrives comes scored, with the sender checks and the reasons on it. yourdomain.com Records found TXT @ CNAME oe1.\_domainkey TXT \_dmarc MX @ [All use cases](https://openemail.uk/use-cases.md)