That's ridiculous, who's your domain provider?
To clarify, I have a domain mydomain.org which has nothing other than 3 or 4 email id's
I use Thunderbird to send emails from aaa@mydomain.org using my BT Fibre and BT email account mail servers.
Incoming email from mydomain.org are forwarded to myBTemailid@btinternet.com
Thunderbird the filters to mailboxes based on original email id
Freeola 😞
You get what you pay for!
For £6/m with Ionos (1&1) I get my domain, website hosting, 50 email addresses with SMTP and IMAP server access.