I’ve recently been trying to degoogle myself, and in doing so I’m going to need another email. I tried ProtonMail, but apparently only business accounts can use SMTP, even though their features claim SMTP access. I’m plenty fine paying for the service, but going from the $6/month to $12/month just to get notification emails from my server doesn’t seem worth it to me. I’ve not looked into what all else comes with Proton’s Business features, but i’m not really running a business or trying to start one up.

What do you use? do you like it? How’s the cost/features?

  • trifictional@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    2 years ago

    Email is the one thing I don’t bother self hosting.

    You need to use an existing host with reputation or most of your emails will end up in junk or be outright blocked.

  • tvcvt@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    I go a couple different routes: I have a Mailcow instance on a VPS for my personal email. For my business I use Zoho, which has been wonderful. Their basic plan is $1 a month per user and it should have all the features you’re looking for.

  • Brownian Motion@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    Can you selfhost? Does you ISP allow you to host a mail server? (and there is a difference between what they say, and what they actually do.)

    I use iRedMail as a complete solution which is a mailserver, complete with server management and webclients sogo and icube.

    The problem you may run into is if your ISP actively submits its customer email subnets to sites like Spamhaus. But if you dont get IP changes very often this might not be a problem. However you do also need to have a domain in your control and know how to do DKIM and SPF

  • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    I use my domain name with iCloud+ mail. I self hosted the domain for almost a decade and it’s just easier paying for hosting. I have done it on both O365 and Gmail but they have both nerfed the ability to use custom domains so iCloud it is.

  • node815@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    $10/year gets you what you need from Purelymail. https://purelymail.com I have used them for the last year or so and the service is fast and near real time with messages hitting my inbox (I use Thunderbird to download my mail).

  • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Back when I had more time I set up mailinabox, before that I’d set up postfix and Cyrus.

    Somewhere along the line the sasl and spam management became obnoxious, but I have to make a new solution soon and retire those cloud vms.

    It works well for me, but managed usually makes more sense, consider Google apps for your purposes.