@TourmaHi all, I've got a question about #eMail. If I have my own domain, (eg farts.horse) and set it up on an email service to have email sent to that address be licked up by them, (eg me@farts.horse is set up as a Proton email,) if I switch services, (say tuta) and remove me@farts.horse from proton and add it to Tuta, will email just start flowing there instead, or will I have to change the email for places I used it.
Like, if I have a Taco bell rewards account with me@farts.horse, will I have to tell taco bell about the change, or will it just go to the new service?
Dunno if I'm explaining this well...
@Tourma A given domain has a thing called an "MX" (Mail eXchange) record in DNS, which tells people where to deliver email for that domain.
After you've configured Tuta to accept mail for your domain, you just change the MX record to point to Tuta instead of Proton.
After that you won't need to do anything else; Taco Bell's mail server will look up the MX records to figure out how to reach you.
@diffrentcolours MX (in DNS) stands for Mail eXchanger, not MailboX.
@mkj Thank you for the correction.