I’m setting up my Nextcloud server and am at the point of needing to connect an email server. I’m not interested in selfhosting an email server (not yet anyway), and I don’t particularly like Proton as my current email provider (which was what I migrated to when de-Googling my life).
What email providers do y’all like that aren’t run by shady tech bros and are easy to integrate with your other selfhosted services?
Mxroute for me. Or Zoho.
I have had delivery issues with Zoho in the past. Just me?
My small team using mxroute for a few years now.
Its fine. Its cheap. Support is very responsive.
Tuta ?
tuta isn’t “easy to integrate” :(
I regret going all in on Tuta :(
I been using mailo.com for years now. It’s a small EU business that’s been in business for 20 years iirc. Never had an issue. Other than that, I predominately use aliases that forward to my main email address.
Check out PurelyMail
Is this for me? Do you want email? Then yes, probably.
Well, you really can’t argue with that logic. LOL
Based in USA and using AWS? Hard pass. Even Stripe is bad enough, but I do understand that one.
Seconded, been using them for years. It’s just… mail. No weird stuff.
I’m liking what I’m seeing here! Most other services try to be like Google, where you can’t get a mail account without also paying for drive, calendar, office, etc. All I want here is an email service, and this looks good and cheap for that.
It’s good but it’s also been bought out by, at least to me, an ‘unknown’ early this year. Since then, there’s been a couple outages though nothing too drastic. New owner also promised to only make changes that are ‘thoughtful and focused on making your experience better’ but I am still cautiously eyeing other options since then - I’ve learned never to trust those words by new owners.
I use Migadu, it’s probably the closest you can come to fully managing email while not hosting your own server. All their plans are limited on inbound/outbound mails per day and storage used. Beyond that you add as many domains as you want (within reason on their cheapest plan) and create any number of separate mailboxes/users.
I second migadu. I’ve been with them for about a year, no problems so far, works nice with thunderbird and K9-mail.
I’ve got a so-called “Asteroid” with UberSpace. You just have to bring your own domain and configure DNS to use their servers. Unlimited mailboxes, unlimited aliases, Sieve scripts … and SSH access.
Apart from that, I’ve got a free account with disroot for emergencies.
Fastmail. It’s been around forever and it just works. And they don’t do anything weird with SMTP/IMAP.
mailbox dot org is also pretty good, but I wasn’t a fan of their 2FA implementation.
Fastmail is probably the best, but their pricing is egregious.
I was with them for a decade or so but with a large archive of emails and multiple users i couldn’t justify the cost.
Plus, if you are a 1Password user, it integrates to give you randomly generated email addresses.
When did you try mailbox.org last? they improved 2FA this year. It is now TOTP + possibility to make application passwords. Finally works great!
https://kb.mailbox.org/en/private/security-and-privacy/how-to-use-two-factor-authentication-2fa/
Ah very nice, good to hear they addressed that. It was the only real deciding factor last time I moved my mail around ~2 yrs ago
I’ve using purelymail.com for a few years with my own domain, never had one problem, and they’re cheap.
Purelynail has been awesome.
That’s the most lucrative desk I’ve seen I think.
I can highly recommend MXroute. Just works. Great for integrations.
Sorry what integrations?
Came here to say this. They even have decently priced “lifetime” accounts. Though that price raises by a reasonable amount every year or so.
I have plenty of server storage. Can mx route be used almost like a mail proxy? Mail stored locally and mx route used for just receiving and sending? Needs to be spouse friendly as well. Or if anyone else can recommend something else that fits that bill more.
I only use it for automations (both send and receive); I’m on Proton for regular mail. They’ve got a few different web interfaces, so I think you can get spouse approval. Not sure on local storage (outside of POP/IMAP).
Runbox (Norway) is a good option, good privacy protection and outside of EU chat control zone
Nobody mentioning fastmail, sad times.
I love fastmail! Great price for what you get!!
Have a look at posteo. Gives you IMAP so you can use any client. Its only €1 a month and is supposed to be good with privacy. Have had no complaints so far. https://posteo.de/en
Seconded. Works really well for me.
I use inleed.xyz. It’s free, has IMAP/SMTP access and you can have as many accounts as you want. It’s limited to 1GB of storage shared between all accounts though.
I’ve enjoyed ProtonMail quite a bit the last year.
They are becoming like gmail
In what way?
Centralised server, services. Logging IPs. Partially open source. Not all apps on F-droid
Ah shoot. Didn’t realize this was the self-hosted community. My bad.
