Sorry, this has been brought up a number of times obviously, but I figured I’d still give it a shot. I’m not self-hosting email, because it sounds like a huge PITA. I was looking for a decent email provider, but coming up short for now, wonder what people here are using. My requirements:
- support for a custom domain,
- support for hooking up my applications via SMTP (just to send, like, update notifications, nothing spammy),
- (optional, but would be good to have) nice apps for Android/iOS.
Things I’ve tried (all paid subscriptions):
- Fastmail - felt excellent until I tried actually using it and found that 1) my SMTP messages are lost/delayed by a few hours. 2) SMTP-sent messages are not in the Sent folder, which makes things really hard to track. More details here: https://www.reddit.com/r/fastmail/comments/181tnuf/experience_with_fastmail_as_a_new_user/
- Proton Mail - doesn’t have SMTP support, wat.
- Purelymail - feels a bit hackish to me, and I don’t want my wife to input weird IMAP settings on her phone.
Any good recommendations? Thanks a lot!
Why not look into alternate methods of getting alerts? Like Gotify or ntfy?
I use a combination on ProtonMail and Mailgun. I only have a few automated messages going out with mailgun a month so it’s essentially free. I also started using mattermost as a notification channel for different things as well. It has the same API as slack, so you can hook it up to pretty much anything you can hook slack up to.
surprised no one has mentioned migadu.com yet
- Google Workspace. Not the cheapest, and also by Google (although they claim they don’t mine as much data from business accounts)
- Zoho, $1.25/mo
- iCloud+, $0.99/mo, but a bit limited (don’t remember whether they have catch-all etc).
I self host Mailu and don’t have issues with it being blocked… If it’s configured correctly you won’t have issues.
I’ve thought about creating a blog on how to build it but haven’t. Any interest in this?
I self host too, using modoboa The issue with many VPS is they block outgoing port 25 Cant selfhost at home because ISP didnt give public ip For now im just relay outgoing via sendgrid
I use a provider called Imageway (), and they seem to offer really good email hosting. They are non-Microsoft based, and offer just about every major open email based protocol (IMAP, POP, SMTP, CalDAV, CardDAV) available. They also have features you won’t find anywhere else like support for 2FA that works with IMAP/POP. Lastly they don’t charge per email account like most of the other providers listed, instead they use a shared storage concept.
How about lark suite, I haven’t tried, but have been meaning to, I’d you’re happy with Gmail, Zoho, I’d say it’s equivalent.
I like infomaniak with their UI, although if you are not in Europe it’s hard to sign up and I’d love to finally sign up to purely mail, but Cloudflare email forwarding covers what I need.
Here’s an outdated list. https://www.reddit.com/r/gsuitelegacymigration/s/xsimVL9oJA
Infomaniak kMail 👍🏻. Based in Swiss, so very good data privacy protection.
Im going to use protonmail for my next domain im looking into getting (when i come up with a name for it :D)
Custom domains
sub-accounting or what its called, aliasing in email like gmail… yourname+something@mail.tld so you can tag and see where spam and such comes from (who sold/leaked your email?)Proton mail have both imap and smtp available
Migadu, dirt cheap and reliable (using it since 2018)
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Brevo formerly sendinblue, free plan will be enough for sending transactional emails using smtp or api. 300 emails per day on free plan.
I am using smtp2go to send out emails from my own services. The free plan allows 1k emails per month.
You can set up your domain and it sends fine.
For my own mail I use Fastmail and it is great. If the smtp from apps is the only issue then smtp2go might be solution?