Recommended email providers?

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?

#selfhosted

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hanrahan@slrpnk.net on 14 Dec 19:43 next collapse

Tuta ?

merde@sh.itjust.works on 14 Dec 22:38 collapse

tuta isn’t “easy to integrate” :(

sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 15 Dec 04:15 collapse

I regret going all in on Tuta :(

exu@feditown.com on 14 Dec 19:52 next collapse

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.

myrmidex@belgae.social on 14 Dec 21:11 collapse

I second migadu. I’ve been with them for about a year, no problems so far, works nice with thunderbird and K9-mail.

mbirth@lemmy.ml on 14 Dec 20:01 next collapse

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.

irmadlad@lemmy.world on 14 Dec 20:21 next collapse

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.

DigDoug@lemmy.world on 14 Dec 20:57 next collapse

Check out PurelyMail

anticonnor@lemmy.world on 14 Dec 21:04 next collapse

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.

hoppolito@mander.xyz on 14 Dec 23:57 collapse

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.

irmadlad@lemmy.world on 14 Dec 21:06 next collapse

Is this for me? Do you want email? Then yes, probably.

Well, you really can’t argue with that logic. LOL

northernlights@lemmy.today on 14 Dec 22:32 next collapse

Seconded, been using them for years. It’s just… mail. No weird stuff.

airikr@lemmy.ml on 15 Dec 23:36 collapse

Based in USA and using AWS? Hard pass. Even Stripe is bad enough, but I do understand that one.

Engywuck@lemmy.zip on 14 Dec 21:02 next collapse

Mxroute for me. Or Zoho.

rageagainstmachines@lemmy.world on 15 Dec 06:59 next collapse

I have had delivery issues with Zoho in the past. Just me?

Engywuck@lemmy.zip on 15 Dec 07:36 collapse

I didn’t experience that (or I just didn’t notice it).

fizzle@quokk.au on 15 Dec 07:32 collapse

My small team using mxroute for a few years now.

Its fine. Its cheap. Support is very responsive.

Engywuck@lemmy.zip on 15 Dec 07:35 collapse

It’s great… And having Jar reply to your question/doubts in Discord almst in real time is a big plus.

TechnoCat@piefed.social on 14 Dec 21:23 next collapse

I’ve enjoyed ProtonMail quite a bit the last year.

goatinspace@feddit.org on 14 Dec 23:48 collapse

They are becoming like gmail

TechnoCat@piefed.social on 15 Dec 00:02 next collapse

Ah shoot. Didn’t realize this was the self-hosted community. My bad.

Nighed@feddit.uk on 15 Dec 15:18 collapse

In what way?

goatinspace@feddit.org on 15 Dec 16:11 collapse

Centralised server, services. Logging IPs. Partially open source. Not all apps on F-droid

nbailey@lemmy.ca on 14 Dec 21:52 next collapse

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.

conrad82@lemmy.world on 14 Dec 22:12 next collapse

When did you try mailbox.org last? they improved 2FA this year. It is now TOTP + possibility to make application passwords. Finally works great!

kb.mailbox.org/…/how-to-use-two-factor-authentica…

nbailey@lemmy.ca on 14 Dec 22:52 collapse

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

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418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works on 15 Dec 04:10 next collapse

Plus, if you are a 1Password user, it integrates to give you randomly generated email addresses.

1password.com/fastmail/

www.fastmail.com/features/masked-email/

fizzle@quokk.au on 15 Dec 07:31 collapse

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.

vas@lemmy.ml on 14 Dec 22:00 next collapse

disroot is quite decent. I like their (privacy) vibe and the set of semi-independent services they provide.

sznowicki@lemmy.world on 14 Dec 22:21 next collapse

Mailo.com. French company. They have quite a quirky UI. like one can tell it’s made by a backend guy and the junior version is made by his younger nephew but technical wise it’s perfect. All standards are there plus price is OK.

TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub on 14 Dec 22:23 next collapse

I can highly recommend MXroute. Just works. Great for integrations.

epyon22@sh.itjust.works on 14 Dec 22:57 next collapse

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.

TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub on 15 Dec 00:47 collapse

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).

KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 15 Dec 03:17 next collapse

Came here to say this. They even have decently priced “lifetime” accounts. Though that price raises by a reasonable amount every year or so.

TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub on 15 Dec 06:53 collapse

Love the lifetime deal. 10GB across any number of accounts. That’s what I’ve got.

fizzle@quokk.au on 15 Dec 07:33 collapse

Sorry what integrations?

TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub on 15 Dec 14:51 collapse

Apps that need to send emails or receive emails.

northernlights@lemmy.today on 14 Dec 22:30 next collapse

I’ve using purelymail.com for a few years with my own domain, never had one problem, and they’re cheap.

victorz@lemmy.world on 15 Dec 00:26 next collapse

That’s the most lucrative desk I’ve seen I think.

bmcgonag@lemmy.world on 15 Dec 00:39 collapse

Purelynail has been awesome.

confuser@lemmy.zip on 14 Dec 22:37 next collapse

Nobody mentioning fastmail, sad times.

Brunette6256@sh.itjust.works on 15 Dec 00:50 collapse

I love fastmail! Great price for what you get!!

maj@piefed.social on 14 Dec 23:22 next collapse

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

JASN_DE@feddit.org on 15 Dec 06:17 collapse

Seconded. Works really well for me.

chris@discuss.tchncs.de on 14 Dec 23:32 next collapse

Mailbox.org

nieminen@lemmy.world on 15 Dec 00:44 next collapse

Purelymail is nice. Stupid cheap and really easy.

cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de on 15 Dec 00:56 next collapse

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.

d00phy@lemmy.world on 15 Dec 01:20 next collapse

Careful, I had a post like this locked almost a month ago.

FWIW, I went with purelymail, and it’s been pretty good. Basic, but solid.

sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 15 Dec 04:13 next collapse

Gmx for automatic emails to myself since the Calibre days. Maybe there is something better now.

anticonnor@lemmy.world on 15 Dec 06:52 next collapse

I want to thank everyone who replied. I did some research on most of these and think PurelyMail is the winner for me. Feel free to correct me if I got some details wrong. I want to give a shoutout to @mbirth for mentioning Disroot, which looks like a really interesting experiment in federated services.

Also, I know this post is really bending the rules for c/selfhosted, but connecting your selfhosted services to an email provider is essential, and having a reliable and affordable email provider just makes this weird hobby of ours a little easier.

My Rating (1-5)	Service	Website	Annual Cost	Only Email?
5	PurelyMail	purelymail.com	$10, pay for added storage	Yes
4	MXRoute	mxroute.com	$50/year small plan	Yes
4	Disroot	disroot.org	Free, pay to add storage and domains	Yes, separated from other Disroot services
3	Fastmail	www.fastmail.com	$60 individual plan	Yes-ish
3	Mailo	www.mailo.com	~$14 premium plan	No
3	Proton	mail.proton.me	$48/year plus plan $120/year unlimited plan	No
2	Mailbox.org	mailbox.org	~$14 light plan ~$42 standard	Light plan
2	Migadu	migadu.com	$90 mini plan	Yes
1	GMX	www.gmx.com/mail/	Free, ad supported	No

fdnomad@programming.dev on 15 Dec 18:07 next collapse

I’ve been happy with Fastmail and its web & android clients so far but I havent tried to integrate it anywhere yet.

The_TKS@lemmy.ca on 16 Dec 00:59 next collapse

Thexyz www.thexyz.com/email/ Based in Toronto

BonkTheAnnoyed@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 16 Dec 01:28 collapse

Runbox (Norway) is a good option, good privacy protection and outside of EU chat control zone